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Freedom and Discipline: Part 2
By Margaret Lowenfeld
A very grave obstacle meets us at the outset in any attempt to define discipline in education. This is the intimate connection, particularly evident in Englan...
Freedom and Discipline Part I
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Education is in these days very much concerned with the concepts of freedom and discipline and the controversies concerning them. These notes arise not out of...
Parents and Children
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Quite a number of people are now beginning to realize that the question of emotional development lies somewhere near the real reason of the failure in educati...
Irrational Fears
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Everyone feels afraid sometimes, for fear is a valuable part of human life; fear of accidents leads to caution in traffic- fear of fire to care with gas taps....
Destructiveness in Children
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Destructiveness in children is one of the forms of wanting to know about things. This sounds odd, but it is true. Children do not differentiate as we do betwe...
Children in English Culture
By Margaret Lowenfeld
To form a relevant pattern, observations concerning a culture must emanate from a fixed standpoint whose general orientation is already known and against whic...
The Age of Danger and Delight
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The second stage in development, that which comes between infancy and school years, is the period in life when sensations are at their keenest and emotions at...
Task for Two
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In studying the adult the facts that come to light are the results of events and processes started in early life. In work with children we are in direct conta...
Behaviour Problems in the Nursery
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Every mother and every childrenās nurse who wishes to handle her children wisely is faced with the same problem: how to combine sympathy and freedom with di...
Helping the Child to Understand
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In helping the child to understand, there are three points to bear in mind. A child comes into a world which is for his purposes peopled with three forces: ļ¬...
The Future of Preventive Psychology
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Modern clinical psychology urges the importance for the childās whole emotional future of the attitude of the mother to him during the time of breast or bot...
The Danger and Value of Curiosity
By Margaret Lowenfeld
I feel it a great privilege to have the opportunity of speaking after two such excellent, ļ¬tting and really illuminating addresses, because my task is made ...
Renaissance of Voluntary Enterprise in Medicine
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In every age the struggle for progress towards a sound society crystallises around a different issue: for example, the struggle for religious freedom, or for ...
The Design of Nursery Schools Today
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The 1944 Education Act, for the first time in English history, accepts the idea that it is the child that matters, and that schools and curricula should accor...
Nursery Schools
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The author of this article is chieļ¬y known for her work as a psycho-therapist. At the Institute of Child Psychology, of which she is honorary director, and ...
Psychology as it Affects Midwifery
By Margaret Lowenfeld
For the general welfare of the nation the maternity nurse and midwife have a quite special responsibility. In their’ hands lies the welfare of mother an...
The Modern Child and Toys
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Toys are to a child what a grown-up is represented by his power of speech, his pen, pencil and typewriter, his motor car, his bicycle, his power of acting, co...
The Significance of Play
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The word āPLAYā in the English language is curiously rich in its meaning. It is used for games, for the theatre- ālet us now go and see a play”ā...
Fitness for Play
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Summary of lectures in a series on “Mental hygiene as a problem of nationalĀ fitness”, given under the auspices of the National CouncilĀ forĀ Ment...
Guidance Through Play
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In earlier groupings of society, the guidance of a child was a fairly straightforward undertaking. Lord Chesterļ¬eldās Letters to his Son, Smiles’ ā...