IPA Books
Publications on Integrated Project Approach
Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach
Lilian G Katz and Sylvia C. Chard, 1989
A project is an in-depth investigation of a topic worth learning about. A project is sually taken by a small
group of children within a class, sometimes by a whole class, and sometimes by an individual child.
Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years
Judy Harris Helm and Lilian Katz, 2016 (3rd Edition)
Becoming Young Thinkers: Deep Project Work in the Classroom
Judy Harris Helm, 2015
The Hundred Languages of Children
Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman, 2011
John Dowey, The School and Society, 1902
In The School and Society, Dowey declares that we must “make each one of our schools an embryonic
community life, active with types of occupations that reflect the life of the larger society and permeated with
the spirit of art, history, and science.”
John Dowey, The Child and the Curriculum
In The Child and the Curriculum he stresses the importance of the curriculum as a means of determining the
environment of the child, and allowing the teacher to guide children in asserting themselves, exercising their
capacities, and fulfilling their own nature. 8 black-and-white illustrations. John Dewey puts his philosophy of
education into his curriculum theory and believes that the growth need of the child is the starting point of
education,the psychological law of the child is the basis of the curriculum, the initiative activity of the child is
the method of the curriculum,and the growth of the child's experience is the ultimate goal of the curriculum;
therefore,all kinds of educational arrangements should be centered around the child.
William Kilpatrick, The Project Method, 1918
Kilpatrick’s Project Method is a blend of behavioral psychology and progressivism. It was behavioral in that
student behavior was observed but it was also progressive in the focus on child-centered learning.
The four steps of the Project Method are as follows.
Purpose
Plan
Execute
Judge
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