Pedagogics of the Kindergarten 12+

📒 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... XIV. MOVEMENT PLAYS. (See Plates XIV, XV.) In every activity and deed of man--yes, even in every activity of the smallest child--is expressei^relationships' Each act attempts to promote some end or to represent some idea. To realize his aims, man, and more particularly the child, requires a material (a substantial particular means, though it be only a bit of wood, or a pebble) with which he makes something or which he makes into something. In order to lead the child to the handling of material, we gave him the ball; the sphere which develops from it; the cube and the other bodies discussed in the chapters relating to the kindergarten gifts. Each of these gifts incites the child to free self-activity, to independent movement^* Up to the present, however, no special consideration has been given to the movement plays which develop from the gifts. This omission has been deliberate, and has been in ihe/spirit of my general method of development and nurture--a method which t descends from the universal to the particular, from the; whole to the part, from unity to diversity,/ Now, however, that we have reached a determinate point in the consideration of those plays which require a given material, it is well that we should also give our attention to the pur...