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• Personality development [Browse]
• Educational psychology [Browse]

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History of education book series. [More in this series]

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"The following chapters are a study of some of the main bearings of psychology upon education in the light of the constantly developing life of the child. They are written either for the general reader who, believing that " the proper study of mankind is man," is willing to begin with the child--with the life-processes within the child and the interplay between these life-processes and our educational procedure; and for the student who needs a handbook not running concurrently with the lectures he receives, but striking a line which amplifies and illustrates the more formal and logically progressive studies of the class-room. In its central aim the book is, as its title suggests, a review of the unfolding of personality as the chief aim and work of education. Familiar words in Spencer's chapter on "What Knowledge is of most Worth," have, doubtless, suggested this phrasing. The definition there given of the aim of education as a preparation for complete living has an illuminating rendering in the phrase, " the unfolding of our individualities to the full." The child always, and almost always the school, are before the writer's mind--school as he has lived in it as schoolboy and master, and as he has lived partly in it and wholly for it in connection with a large Training College and a University Department of Education. The writer's greatest direct indebtedness is, without much doubt, to the opportunities which the Demonstration Schools attached to this Department have afforded for personal work with children from five or six to fourteen years of age, and for collective work with students with the same children. A secondary school experience, however, with its happy contacts with much older boys, and the association with students both in the University and in the wider field or Extension lecturing, have contributed to the view which lies right at the centre of the author's mind that there is no more human or more absorbing work than to enter whole-heartedly into the lives of the young, the eager and expectant, both as they are and as, in our hopes and sometimes happily in our assurance, they are to be. This book is a small contribution to a study which is still in its early stages. Much is consciously omitted. All that is attempted is to link together views of the unfolding which is spontaneous and due to native tendency and of the unfolding which the educator works for and seeks to realise in those he educates"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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unfolding of personality as the chief aim in education

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