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Porter Lander MacClintock. Literature in the Elementary School
Literature in the Elementary School
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER II THE SERVICES WE MAY EXPECT LITERATURE TO RENDER IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
CHAPTER III THE KINDS OF LITERATURE AND THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE SERVICEABLE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER IV STORY
CHAPTER V THE CHOICE OF STORIES
CHAPTER VI FOLK-TALE AND FAIRY-STORY
CHAPTER VII MYTH AS LITERATURE
CHAPTER VIII HERO-TALES AND ROMANCES
CHAPTER IX REALISTIC STORIES
CHAPTER X NATURE AND ANIMAL STORIES
CHAPTER XI SYMBOLISTIC STORIES, FABLES, AND OTHER APOLOGUES
CHAPTER XII POETRY
CHAPTER XIII DRAMA
CHAPTER XIV THE PRESENTATION OF THE LITERATURE
CHAPTER XV THE RETURN FROM THE CHILDREN
CHAPTER XVI THE CORRELATIONS OF LITERATURE
CHAPTER XVII LITERATURE OUT OF SCHOOL AND READING OTHER THAN LITERATURE
CHAPTER XVIII A COURSE IN LITERATURE FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Porter Lander MacClintock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It would seem to be no part of the present discussion to go into the fundamental processes of determining and defining a child's needs and tastes. In this matter we may assume and build upon the larger conclusions of psychology and educational philosophy. And it is only the larger and more general conclusions that we need, both because there is no doubt concerning them, as there may be concerning those more detailed and remote, and because when we are dealing with children in school, and in class, we are dealing with the type-child—with a composite child, as it were, to whom we can apply only the larger conclusions.
Everyone who helps to train a child must realize as a practical fact that he has both needs and tastes. The emphasis wisely placed in our day upon enlisting a child's interests and tastes has tended to mislead the unwary and undo the unobservant, so as to produce a blindness or an indifference as to his needs. Though, as a matter of mere justice, one must add that the blindness and indifference have had their existence chiefly in the indictments of those who opposed the movement when it was new.
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