Teaching Learning for Social Understanding

Contents: Preface. 1. The doctrine of usage. 2. The teaching of the doctrine. 3. Grammar and logic in learning. 4. The first landing stage. 5. The interpretation of IS. 6. Some senses of IS. 7. \'True by definition\'. 8. Logical machinery and empty words. 9. Logical machinery: some uses. 10. The essential and the accidental, and the freedom in definition. 11. The development of social understanding. 12. The development of aesthetic responsiveness. 13. The development of motor abilities. 14. The place of memory in developmental teaching. Bibliography. Appendix. Index.

"Man is a social animal and he cannot remain isolated and as such interacts with other human groups. It is highly important for children to understand the society in which they live. There are all sorts of societies nowadays in the world, the industrial society, the agrarian societies and the under-developed societies. When a child is born in a society he has to come up through education and improve the society also, i.e. there is relationship of teaching and learning with social development. It is in this context that this book has been prepared. The editor gratefully acknowledges the assistance taken from the American Centre in Delhi for the preparation of this book." (jacket)