An introduction to special school work / by Marion F. Bridie.

  • Bridie, Marion F.
Date:
1917
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Credit: An introduction to special school work / by Marion F. Bridie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER Ill PREPARATORY CLASS Tus class has often been called the ‘‘ Kindergarten ” ; and the principles adopted in the lowest class in a Special School have in some measure agreed with those of Froebel. We have come to look on the Kindergarten, however, as a class for tiny children, and one cannot help considering the title somewhat incongruous when the special class 1s largely composed of children of an advanced age, and when in many ways the methods employed are not Kinder- garten ones. | The Special School methods are not purely Kinder- garten methods, but are a combination and modification of all that is best in Froebel, Séguin, and other education- alists, and these are adapted to suit the older physical development just as much as the childish mind. It 1s important to realize this in drawing up schemes of work for the lowest as well as the higher classes. The name ‘‘ Preparatory’ describes better the real work done in this class, for after all it is the basis on which all the other work in the school is founded: it must not be an isolated bit of training of its own, culminating only in the capacity for the performance of the duties required in that class. In the curriculum for this class must be found the direct or indirect beginnings of every bit of work done in the school, and there is not time to do