This is a study of children as they go about absorbed in their own affairs, learning in their own way. As children grow, they learn both by experience and by imitation; parents and teachers have to decide when it is better to interfere and when it is better to let children find out for themselves in their own way. This film presents a number of situations in which children and their learning processes raise problems which parents and teachers encounter from day to day, and suggestions are made as to how these problems can be solved. This is one of a series of films which includes “Your children and you”, “Your children’s sleep”, “Your children’s meals” and “Children growing up with other people”.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
001989
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Ephemeral films
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning ability
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning ability - Testing
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning, Psychology o
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → School children
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Assertiveness in children
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Child development
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Child psychology
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Children
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Children - Growth
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Perception in children
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → School children
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Behaviorism (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Child development
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Child psychology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Children - Growth
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Decision-making
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mental hygiene
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Perception in children
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → School children
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)