TITLE

New Kind of School Day

AUTHOR(S)

Sponberg, Ruth Ann

PUB. DATE

April 1969

SOURCE

Education Digest;Apr1969, Vol. 34 Issue 8, p46

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on elementary education in England. There is a new look to education in England these days, a lively look that causes visitors to reconsider preconceived ideas about English schools. Of the many innovative ideas in practice, the one making the most stir is the "integrated" or "free" day now operating, in varying degrees, in about a fourth of the primary schools. There is no set formula for the integrated day--schools differ in their approach, as do rooms within a school. Grouping of pupils may be vertical (two- or three-year age span in the classroom) or horizontal (one age level in the room). In England's primary schools, materials are arranged in specific classroom areas or focal points, but the environment spilled outdoors, too, where there were pets and easels and building blocks, among other items. Hallways were also beehives of activity and learning devices. There is no separation between activities that are "work" and those that are "play." Nor is there any pressure to make a child do anything by a certain age.

ACCESSION #

18810773

Tags: ELEMENTARY education;  ELEMENTARY schools;  SCHOOL children;  EDUCATIONAL planning;  CLASSROOM environment

 

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