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How Children Learn

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Country
  
United States

ISBN
  
0-440-03835-9

Originally published
  
1967

Original language
  
English

Genre
  
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Publication date
  
1967, 1983 (revised)

OCLC
  
8786109

Author
  
John Holt

Page count
  
189

Subject
  
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Publisher
  
Pitman Publishing (1967)Delacorte Press (1983)Perseus Publishing (1995)

Pages
  
189 (1967 ed.), 303 (1983 ed.), 320 (1995 ed.)

Similar
  
John Holt books, Educational psychology books, Non-fiction books

How Children Learn is a nonfiction book by educator John Caldwell Holt, first published in 1967. A revised edition was released in 1983, with new chapters and commentaries.

The book focuses on Holt's interactions with young children and his observations of children learning. From them, he attempts to make sense of how and why children do the things they do. The central thesis of his work is that children learn most effectively by their own motivation and on their own terms. He opposes teaching in general, believing that children find it just as patronizing as would an adult and that parents should provide information only as it is requested.

Children learn best when they are not pressured to learn in a way that is of no interest to them.

References

How Children Learn Wikipedia


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