Apperception; A Monograph on Psychology and Pedagogy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for instruction, and then to bring these laws as far as possible into consonance with one another and with other principles, should be, in every subject, the most important problem of the student of methodology. .After the teacher has satisfied the demands to be made regarding the object of apperception, he has further to take care that all the helps to apperception that already exist in the mind of the scholar or that may easily be made effective, sliall be turned to account. He must therefore turn his attention to the subject that apperceives; viz., the child. 2. Pedagogical Demands With Reference To The Apperceiving Subject. (Investigation, enlargement and utilization of the child's store of experience.) In general, with reference to the apperceiving subject, the teacher must see to it that the pupil holds in readiness numerous similar, strong and well arranged ideas for the new material that the instruction is to bring to the understanding. This presupposes, however, not only familiarity with child-nature in general, and its stages of development, but also in particular a thorough knowledge of the peculiar store of ideas possessed by the pupils of a particular school, and a deep insight into head and heart of one's own scholars. Both do not fall to the lot of the born educator; they must be laboriously acquired through long years of conscientious observation. For this purpose it is not enough to know the pupil merely in the few school hours in which only a portion of his ego manifests itself, and that not always the most important part, nor is it enough to undertake to judge him by his reports. It is necessary to hunt for his individual traitson the play-ground, on walks and at celebrations, where he appears much more free and unconstrained among his playfellows...