Learning and Teaching in the Infants’ School
- Author:
L>. Hume, M.A.,
Lecturer in Education, Furzedown Training College. Longman’s, 6/-.
We commend this book to teachers of children of all ages. The teacher of the Nursery Class will find in it practical details of organisation to enable her to provide for her children the active life necessary at this stage. The teacher in the Infants’ Department will have to help her in organising the childrens’ school life, the detailed results of Miss Hume’s wide observation and experience in pioneer Infants’ Schools.
The book shows the possibility of equipping children, by the end of their first term in the Infants’ Department, with the desire to learn (a point of view which is salutary when we still see teachers who consider the object of the Infant School is to teach certain things, of which the 3 R’s are the most important, as a preliminary to passing into the Junior School), and the book works through, in some detail, certain centres of interest and shows the close links between creative play, common activities in group work and the learning of reading, and an understanding of the fundamental number processes in contrast with a “mere juggling with figures “.
There is a chapter devoted to the retarded child, witli practical suggestions; and the teacher of backward children in Junior and Senior Schools will gain much help from studying the fundamental processes of learning described in this book, and will see how to adapt the plans made for Infants’ learning to the needs of these older children. The book is illustrated with many photographs of original childrens’ paintings, and of the children themselves about their various activities. P. N. H.
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