Junior School Projects
- Author:
Joyce Kenwrick, M.A.,
lutorm Education at Edge Training College, Lanes. With illustrationsUniversity of London Press. 5/-.
Although an interesting account of several projects, this book does not convey much that is new in the type of project described. Its purpose, as stated by the author, is to help the young teacher fresh from college, who still needs guidance and help when experiment’ ing with work on project lines. To some extend the book will fulfil this purpose, but it is essential that the reader should bear in mind the words quoted in the introduction: ” You can’ not tell people how to carry out projects. Yo11 can only tell them what has been done i11 Elementary Schools and show the kind of thing that is possible.” This, Miss Kenwrick proceeds to do and in describing definite projects carried out under her supervision, attempts to give the inexperienced teacher the help and suggestions she considers necessary.
The young teacher of to-day, however, who> as a student, has taken a course of modern psychology, together with lectures on mode#1 methods, will probably find it possible to work on much freer lines than those set out in th1? book,
Although essentially interesting to the children who took part in them, several of these activities are frequently carried out in the Junior School, and others?such as the Magazine, Harvest Festival, Flags of the Nations, Stamp Collecting?hardly seem to warrant the title of ‘ project.”
Nevertheless, the book should prove useful to those to whom such suggestions are new. F.E.R.
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