The Curriculum of the Catholic Elementary School a Discussion of Its Psychological and Social Foundations (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Curriculum of the Catholic Elementary School a Discussion of Its Psychological and Social Foundations The curriculum is the fundamental element in a school system. Upon it everything else, administration, supervision, methods of teaching, testing, depends. It is the concrete embodiment of the school´s ideals; in it are implied the changes the school aims to effect in the mind and heart of the child in order that he may be led out of the Egyptian bondage of his native tendencies into the Promised Land of his social inheritance. To it the teacher turns for guidance and in it finds a means of avoiding the indefinite and haphazard; it serves the supervisor as a norm for judging the quality of the teaching; it is the basis of the choice of textbooks. It is the pivot upon which the entire system turns. Hence the importance of discovering the principles that should underlie the curriculum of our Catholic elementary schools. Without the light of these principles, practical administration is handicapped and must of necessity be content with half-measures. A sound theory is the most practical thing in the world, and the present discussion is undertaken with the hope of at least pointing the way to such a theory. The program of the modern elementary school embraces a great number of topics that were not found there a generation ago. This is not due entirely, as some charge, to the fads of educational theory, but largely to the operation of social forces. The history of education reveals how the schools change from age to age to meet the needs of society. Education is preparation for life and it is but natural to expect that the conditions of life at any given time should influence educational agencies. However, the school tends to lag behind in the march of progress. It becomes formal, canonizing subject-matter and methods that have proven valid in the past and according only tardy recognition to innovations. Modern educational philosophy, in the light of the development of social science, would overcome this inertia and adopt a more forward-looking policy. The school is to be regarded as a means of social control. It shall represent the ideal in social conditions and imbue the child with an intelligent discontent with anything short of this in actual life. This development of educational thought is of the deepest importance for the Catholic school. It means that Catholic education must work out a practical social philosophy of its own, and not be satisfied to follow where blind guides may lead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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