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Education 464
Early Childhood Education
Intersession 1977
Instructor: R. Gehlbach
The purpose of this course is to examine the philosophical and psychological
underpinnings of modern early childhood educational programs, including the
controversy over formal versus informal instruction and its relationship to the
application of humanistic versus behaviorist psychology to educational problems.
The following topics will be among those rigorously considered: educational play,
uses and abuses of behavioral objectivies, "natural" versus "contrived" learning
experiences, "facilitating" versus "teaching".
Requirements: ?
One project in original curriculum design.
Take-home final examination.
Texts: ?
Rousseau, J.J.
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The Emile
Engelmann, S.
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Preventing Failure in the Primary Grades
Weber, Lilian
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The English Infant School and Informal Education
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