| Summary: | "The content of this book was gathered and organized in connection with a course entitled "Kindergarten-Primary Education," given by the writer for several summer sessions of the Connecticut State Teachers' College held at Yale University. The book itself and the course out of which it has grown are intended, first of all, as an introduction to the study of lower-school methods and curricula for students of early education. Judging by the summer-school enrollment, some of these students are already kindergarten and primary teachers; others are prospective teachers. A second group of people who have found the course useful and may find the book equally so are supervisors of lower-school work who desire more information about the activity curriculum and who are interested in studying the means through which nursery school, kindergarten, and primary work may be more completely integrated. The writer hopes that the book may serve a still larger group, including students of general education, and perhaps also the increasing number of parents who are taking an active interest in school affairs. Current movements in psychology and widespread social reorganization are constantly adding to the interest and the challenge of lower-school teaching. The day when a kindergarten or primary teacher was selected purely because of her motherly qualities and her placid disposition has passed. There is now enough involved in the profession of lower-school teaching to challenge the most intelligent of highly trained specialists, in addition to the perennial satisfaction of working with little children and observing the rapidly changing pageant of growth during these early years. So far as possible this book presents the many-sided character of education in the lower school, indicating the various movements which are influencing it and the very different ways in which gifted teachers may make individual contributions to the field. Many practical discussions and illustrations are included, which have grown out of the writer's contacts with her adult students and her own experiences as lower-school teacher and supervisor"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
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