TY - BOOK AU - Entwistle, Harold TI - Child-Centred Education SN - 0416811000 U1 - 370.1 ENT PY - 1979/// CY - London, Methuen, New York PB - distributed by Harper & Row KW - Teaching KW - Educational psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This volume is a critical study of one of today's most controversial topics in educational theory, setting the many arguments in perspective and clarifying the issues that arise when attention is focused on the learner. The author examines the problems of individual education, the distinctive demands childhood makes on the school and the claims of social education. The related questions of freedom, authority and discipline are then discussed, together with the ways in which curriculum development must take account of the learner's interests, needs and dispositions in preparing him/her for life ER -