Learning on ScreenDiscovery and Experience (10 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Films concerned with different aspects of child-centred education made in different primary schools in England.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Film. 16mm. sd. b&w. 10 x 30 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1966
- Availability
- OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
- Keywords
- Piaget, Jean (1897-1980); primary education; teaching methods
Credits
- Producer
- Eileen Molony
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Sections
- Title
- Learning by doing
- Synopsis
- 1: Children observe and record their own experiences; they are involved in the work and gain great enjoyment from it.
- Title
- Maths is a monster...
- Synopsis
- 2: In mathematics teaching the experiments come first and are directly related to the children's experiences; recording them in mathematical terms follows when the children understand what they have done.
- Title
- Our own music
- Synopsis
- 3: Joy in making music for its own sake, starting very simply, with many different instruments and a little guidance from the teacher. From simplified scales and notation, the children become proficient in harmony, and compose their own music.
- Title
- Learning by design
- Synopsis
- 4: The influence of environment: in country places the children can learn from their own observation of the countryside and local crafts, and take price in their own developing craftsmanship.
- Title
- Finding out
- Synopsis
- 5: Encouraging the child's curiosity about natural objects: to help answer 'Why?', to record discoveries accurately and to use powers of invention.
- Title
- Movement in time and space
- Synopsis
- 6: Free movement by young children can often express more than words, and they learn a great deal about themselves and the world. Tensions are released and plays and mimes involving the whole class are improved.
- Title
- Changeover, The
- Synopsis
- 7: The problems of changing from the conventional authoritarian approach to informal teaching. The work must be done slowly, but once achieved there are rich results in the children's enthusiasm and approach to what they are learning.
- Title
- City infants
- Synopsis
- 8: The problems of urban schools - over-crowding and numbers of immigrant children without much English - present a different challenge to the teacher. Expeditions are seen as a way forward.
- Title
- Growing mind, The
- Synopsis
- 9: Piaget's theories of stages in a child's thinking: the sensory-motor and pre-conceptual stages, followed by the intuitive stage, then the priod of concrete operations from 7-12 years when children have more of an idea of time and spece. Learning by doi
- Title
- How do children think?
- Synopsis
- 10: Practical experiments illustrating Piaget's theories (beakers of water etc).
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Concord Media
- sales@concordmedia.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726 012
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG - Notes
- A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.
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