The Decroly Method is a child-centered pedagogy developed by Belgian physician and educator Ovide Decroly in the early twentieth century, organizing the curriculum around a small number of broad centers of interest, such as food, shelter and defense against danger, that draw on a child's own needs rather than dividing the school day into separate subjects. Instruction proceeds through observation, association and expression, and the method remains influential in Belgian and French early education.
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Central QuestionHow should schooling be organized to meet a child's biosocial needs as a developing organism, rather than dividing the day into separate abstract subjects? 1 Sources
1. Ovide Decroly, Wikipedia
The Decroly plan sectionQuote, The Decroly plan section
The Decroly plan laid ground rules for social adaptation of a biological organism, in the concrete case, children. It concluded that schooling is needed for children to meet their biosocial needs.
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