Awakening the Slower Mind : the Commonwealth and International Library: Pergamon Educational Guides
Awakening the Slower Mind deals with the education of and teaching special-needs children. More particularly, this book concerns children in special schools for the """"educationally subnormal, """" whom the author differentiates from the """"ineducable"""" child. The first part of this book discusses these children by noting conditions before and during their birth and the background environment of immigrant children and school transferees. The second part of this text is a discussion on the educational system as to how it affects these children, and discusses when the child with difficul
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9781483139326, 1483139328
1041191979
Front Cover; Awakening the Slower Mind; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LODGED; PART I; CHAPTER 1. WHO ARETHE CHILDREN WHO FAIL?; Damage done in the Environment of the Uterusor at Birth; The Environment after Birth; The Immigrant Child; ""Mobile55 Children; Sensation-Sight and Hearing; The Sense of Smell; Touch, Movement, and Kinaesthetic Sensation; Absorption, Recognition, Comprehension and Retention; Communication; CHAPTER 2. SCHOOL SURROUNDINGSFOR THE LESS ABLE CHILDREN; CHAPTER 3. FAILURE; CHAPTER 4. BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS, MALADJUSTMENT, AND LAWLESSNESS. CHAPTER 5. THE EDUCATION SYSTEMAS IT AFFECTS THESE CHILDRENCHAPTER 6. MEASUREMENT; CHAPTER 7. SCHOOL-LEAVERS; CHAPTER 8. THE LANGUAGE OF WORDS-A MAJOR PROBLEM; CHAPTER 9. THE TEACHER; PART II; CHAPTER10. EXPLORATION, CREATION, AND COMMUNICATION; CHAPTER 11. THE RICH ENVIRONMENT; AN OLD LADY I KNOW; CHAPTER 12. THE ARTS AS COMMUNICATION; The Visual Arts; Movement, Dance, and Dance Drama; Drama; Music; Other Activities which play an Important Part inCommunication; Physical Education; The Garden; Keeping Animals; Religious Education; CHAPTER 13. THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE; CONCLUSION. APPENDIX CHILDREN'S WRITINGBIBLIOGRAPHY; Articles, Pamphlets, and Reports; INDEX