Child development in educational settings1

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A year as headmaster of a small school suggested some practical and some conceptual issues regarding child development in educational settings. On the practical plane perhaps the most significant contribution child development can make is to provide teachers with developmental perspectives and with methods and techniques for assessing the child's view of classroom realities. On a more general plane developmental psychology needs to distinguish between the developmental, the school and the personal curricula and to help teachers coordinate the three rather than insisting upon a substitution of the personal and developmental curricula for the school curriculum. Developmental psychology could also be more helpful if it studied the complicated learning actually engaged in by pupils and teachers. Finally, if child development, or some branch of it, aspires to be a science of education, then new patterns of training combining teaching and research experience will have to be instituted.

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