education

The New Trends and Education 1. Dynamism and a Positive Viewpoint The close interrelationship between these two trends permits us to deal with them together. Both are the incentives of the "active methods" of the new education and are evident in it. These include: Direct contact with nature and with living beings :earth, water, plants, animals, and related activities...to sow, cultivate and raise domestic animals. Specific material for didactic purposes (Frobel, Montessori, Decroly, etc.), or objects, tools and machines for general use. Cooperation in family activities and the carrying out of domestic chores. The execution of set projects (for example, a school building was constructed by a group of teachers and students in a mountainous region. of the USA, using tree trunks. Work makes them use their intelligence and acquire a vast field of concepts and many manual capabilities.) Group activities of various kinds experiments and training in self-government of the scho...

The New Trends and Education2 The first function of the mind is to synthesize the sensorial impressions so that the individual may acquire an intelligent experience of the so-called. outer world. In this regard. the mind can be considered. as a sixth sense, a common sense, that coordinates and interprets the messages transmitted by the other five. The second function is to collect information, to render the fruits of the experience of humanity one's own, and thus to avail oneself of the cultural inheritance of the past. This goal is reached through study, and the imparting of this kind of knowledge was the principal task of the teachers of the past. The third., and higher type of mental activity is that which elaborates the material gathered during the preceding phases, coordinates it, draws conclusions and applies them; this may be called. to think or to reflect. The fourth function of the mind is to be receptive to intuitions, to understand and interpret them with accuracy...