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Informal education, which still seems radical to regulation-loving school administrators, derives from insights into learning that go back to Montessori and Dewey, and have since been confirmed by psychologists like Jean Piaget. For older children as well as preschoolers, says Mrs. Weber, "the most intense form of learning is the child's learning through play and the experiences he seeks out for himself...
...Mouse Was Hit on the Head by a Stone and So Discovered the World (Doubleday; $5.95) is an effort by the renowned Swiss educational philosopher Jean Piaget. In a chesty preface, he explains that he worked with Illustrator Etienne Delessert, as well as "a good psychologist" and 23 children, aged five and six, who were asked to approve or disapprove every line of the story as it went along. The children, Piaget reports, were "keenly interested" and "sometimes even laughed a lot." Perhaps How the Mouse etc. loses in translation. In English, anyway, it simply suggests what Piaget-the foremost...
...follower of famed Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget, Feinbloom believes that systematic infant training generally fails to speed learning-with or without special toys. Even when children do acquire some skills early-counting, for example, or understanding the principle of cause and effect-they soon forget them, and rarely can they apply this knowledge to new situations. In any case, knowledge gained unusually early has no value over the long run. Kittens, for example, understand "object permanence"-the idea that things stay the same even when they are out of sight -before human infants do, but "they cannot do very much...
...Jean Piaget, L.H.D., Swiss child psychologist and philosopher of education...
...nothing but play all day?" one U.S. principal asked. Silberman points out that well beyond first grade "play is a child's work"-an insight that draws, as does the entire informal approach, on the experience of Italian Educator Maria Montessori and the research of Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget. Though academic structure is outwardly minimal in such informal schooling, says Silberman, it becomes apparent to children as they explore the books and materials that knowing adults select for them. Moreover, teachers freed from lockstep group discipline can observe individual children more carefully, prodding them to move beyond easy materials...