Fundamentals of child study : a discussion of instincts and other factors in human development with practical application / by Edwin A. Kirkpatrick.

  • Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick
Date:
1908
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    • • • vation, experiment, and discussion, so far as time will permit. To aid readers and students in assimilating and supplementing the text, exercises and references are given at the close of each chapter. In class work the recitation periods may well be taken up largely in discussions of these exercises and in reports of reading, though if preferred they may be ignored and the text alone studied and recited. It is hoped that the plan of the book will adapt itself to the use of intelligent parents and to classes in normal schools and univer- sities, with varying preparation and amount of time to devote to the subject. Many parents will prefer to begin with chapter five and to omit chapter four- teen and perhaps some of the chapters that follow. No attempt is made to give a complete bibliography, as there are already several good ones. A list of child study books for the benefit of those not familiar with the literature of the subject is given in the first of the book. Suggestions for reading will be found at the close of each chapter, and at the back of the book are given the full name of journals often referred to and an alphabetical list of all books named in the text. Since the references that will be most valuable in connection with each chapter depend upon what literature is acces- sible, the time that can be spent in reading, the maturity of the reader, and the phases of the subject which it is desired to emphasize, each teacher will, in part, wish to make his own reference list. A blank page is therefore left for this purpose. Acknowledgments are due to many earnest students of children, especially to G. Stanley Hall, the father of all child study in America; to J. Mark Baldwin, who
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