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This book takes its name from a scheme of teaching in intermediate and secondary schools, which was originated in Dalton, Massachusetts, by the author. The new system soon received so much favor in England that Miss Parkhurst was attracted by an invitation to give personal attention to the establishment of her "plan" in some English secondary schools. The Dalton Plan, or the "Dalton Laboratory Plan" as the author prefers to name it, is based on two principles, (1) "freedom" of the child, and (2) "co-operation, or interaction in group life. The first step taken toward acquiring the first of these is the elimination of the time schedule. The students divide up up their own working day to suit their study requirements. All studying is done on the laboratory plan; each student progresses at his own rate of speed. Consultation with the teacher takes the place of formal group recitations. Assignments are made by the week, and the student may get all of his work in one subject the first day and let one of the studies go until the last day if he chooses. We are told that the Dalton Plan is not a system, or a method, for it bars all suggestions of monotony and uniformity; it is not a curriculum, for a curriculum is merely "the machine by means of which the brand is stamped upon the individuals caught in its meshes." To use the words found in the book, "it is a scheme of educational reorganization which reconciles the twin activities of teaching and learning." The book is unique, in that it presents in detail a workable scheme for teaching in secondary education, a scheme which has in it enough promise to warrant the attention of every educator. -Industrial Education Magazine, Vol. 24
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This groundbreaking study of progressive education in the United States describes the implementation and impact of the Dalton Laboratory Plan, a project-based approach to learning developed at the Dalton School in New York City. The authors argue that the Dalton Plan encourages creativity, critical thinking, and responsible citizenship, and provide detailed examples of the plan in action. This classic work remains an essential resource for educators and scholars of educational theory. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from The Dalton Laboratory Plan This book is an attempt to answer the questions of teachers and schools about the Dalton Laboratory Plan. The plan is new. It has been in operation in one school for eighteen months and in two others for a little over one year. Therefore, it is not possible to present it as a tested and proved "system," or to say that it must be arranged in such and such a fashion. It is better that it should be so; for education will never be static. It must develop and change with the increase of human knowledge and the changes in society. As long as man develops, his education must develop. Miss Parkhurst has suggested an arrangement of the school building and program that seems to give children some of the things they need to grow up successful adults in the world of to-day. Though she has a strong personal bias on the curriculum, the plan itself does not dictate what facts or subjects children must study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.