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THE NORMAL CHILD AND
PRIMARY EDUCATION
By Arnold L. Gesell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education, Yale University, and
Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Ed.B., Formerly Primary Training
Teacher in Los Angeles State Normal School
8vo, cloth, x + 342 pages, illustrated, $1.25
THIS comprehensive, nontechnical survey of the field of
primary education will be of interest to the general reader
as well as to the teacher and the normal-school student. The
discussion includes both theory and practice, emphasizing the
scientific basis of pedagogical method.
The earlier chapters treat the historical and the genetic
backgrounds of education, taking up such subjects as
Humanitarian-ism and the Child, The Scientific Interpretation of Life, The
Biological Perspective, The Primitive Ancestry of the Child,
and The Hand of the Race and of the Child. The chapters of
Parts III and IV discuss in detail primary-school methods
of pedagogy. The appendix contains a critical exposition of the
Montessori system of primary education. The treatment is
specific with reference to the practical problems, broad and
suggestive with reference to the large themes which serve as a
background philosophy for the pedagogy, and concrete always.
The text is enriched by copious and attractive illustrations.
The authors believe that " the ordinary primary child is far
below his possibilities," and " The Normal Child and Primary
Education " aims to elevate and to correct the prevailingly low
and vague standards of normality.
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GINN AND COMPANY Publishers
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