This document discusses child-centered education, which places the child at the center of the learning process. Key aspects include allowing children to actively participate in and make choices about their education, with a focus on play-based learning activities. The principles of child-centered education emphasize meeting children's developmental needs and interests through freedom, self-directed activities, and education based on experience. While this approach can help build skills and self-esteem, it also requires special skills from teachers and may be difficult to implement within standard curriculum targets.

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2. CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION

3.  A child-centered places the child at the
center of their, learning process.
 The child is an active participant in their own
learning.
 The program is play-based, the child has
choices of learning activities, the families are
seen as knowledge and important and the
educator acts as a facilitator of learning.

4. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILD-
CENTERED EDUCATION
 Diginity of the child
 No discrimination
 Education
 Curriculum, syllabi, teaching
 All-round development of child
 Positive discipline
 Continuous evaluation
 Helping every child to acquire minimum level of
learning

5. CONCEPT OF CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION
 Stage
 Capacities, needs and interests of child
Prof. P. M. Lothithakshan- “educational
activities are designed and implemented on the
basis of the Capacities, need, and interests of
children. Curricula, teaching methods,
evaluation, co-Curricular activities etc.are all
planned accordingly.

6.  Educational programmes meaningful to
children
 Children-active participants
 Caters for individual differences.
 Child’s balanced development

7. PROMOTING CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION
 Freedom
 Self-activities
 Process of spontaneous development
 Development if interest and needs
 Education –based on experience

8. THE PRINCIPLES OF CHILD-CENTERED
EDUCATION
 Play and curiosity
 Self-discovery
 The whole child
 Choice and consequences
 Emapthy, caring, and mutual trust
 Taking reasonable risks
 Time for solitude, reflection and a sense of
wonder

9.  Inclusion and diversity – A community of
learners
 Collaborative learning
 The natural world
 Assessment

10. MERITS OF CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION
 Maintain children’s interest by allowing them to do what is
important to them.
 Give children the opportunity to develop skills in which to take
care of their own needs and solve problems.
 Minimize adult-child conflicts.
 Avoid Borden.
 Promotes greater student-faculty and student -student interaction.
 Increase student retention.
 Children construct their own knowledge.
 Help them grow and develop to their basic premise of
understanding..
 It can help to build social skills and self-esteem.
 And also students gain more emotional and cognitive support
from their peers.

11. DEMERITSOFCHILD-CENTEREDEDUCATION
 The weakness of the Child-Centered curriculum are
chiefly in the possibilities for interpretation
 Teachers sometimes ill prepared to adept to changing
concepts of child development
 It requires a longer time for students so it is difficult to
achieve curriculum targets.
 Take a long time for teachers so that teachers in
general do not want to use cooperative Learning.
 It requires special skills of teachers so that not all
teachers can do or use of cooperative Learning.
 Specific nature of student demands, such as the
nature likes to work together.