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Child study   Listen
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Child study  n.  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.






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"Child study" Quotes from Famous Books



... Recent developments in child study show that many of the moral and mental obliquities of children may be traced to physical defects. In dealing with wayward and dull children, the visitor should bear this fact in mind, and, either by observation or by the help of a physician, discover ...
— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond

... use is made of the large investment (in 1908 about $44,500,000) which they represent. In all the public schools manual training, household arts and economy, and commercial studies are a regular part of the curriculum. A department of scientific pedagogy and child study (1900) seeks to secure a development of the school system in harmony with the results of scientific study of children (the combination of hand and brain training, the use of audito-visual methods, an elastic curriculum ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various



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