The New Trends and Education

The New Trends and Education

1. Dynamism and a Positive Viewpoint

The close interrelationship between these two trends permits us to deal with them together. Both are the incentives of the "active methods" of the new education and are evident in it. These include:
Direct contact with nature and with living beings :earth, water, plants, animals, and related activities...to sow, cultivate and raise domestic animals.
Specific material for didactic purposes (Frobel, Montessori, Decroly, etc.), or objects, tools and machines for general use.
Cooperation in family activities and the carrying out of domestic chores.
The execution of set projects (for example, a school building was constructed by a group of teachers and students in a mountainous region. of the USA, using tree trunks. Work makes them use their intelligence and acquire a vast field of concepts and many manual capabilities.)
Group activities of various kinds experiments and training in self-government of the school community, etc. All this can be put into the general formula: LEARN BY DOING EDUCATION THROUGH ACTIVE TRAINING.