...write that the 'child and the curriculum are simply two limits which define a single process . . . the present standpoint of the child and the facts and truths of studies define instruction'. The process moves outward from the present, subjective, and wholly personal experience of the child...

...was the child's experience thought of as hard and fast, but as something fluent, embryonic, vital. 1 "The child and the curriculum are simply two limits...facts and truths of studies define instruction. It is a continuous reconstruction, moving from the child's present experience out into that represented by...

...Curriculum and The School and Society, combined ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), notes that "the child and the curriculum are simply two...reconstruction, moving from the child's present experience out into that represented by the organized bodies of truth that we call studies" (11). 7. Parker J. Palmer,...

...quotation from Dewey's The Child and the Curriculum x which may help to suggest the value of each type: "Abandon the notion of subject matter as something...reconstruction, moving from the child's present experience out into that represented by the organized bodies of truth that we call studies." The ideal organizatiQn...