Includes bibliographical references and index

Patterns of growth -- Education as social invention -- Notes on a theory of instruction -- Man: a course of study -- Teaching a native language -- The will to learn -- On coping and defending -- A retrospect on making and judging

Instruction is an effort to assist or to shape growth. In devising instruction for the young, one would be ill advised indeed to ignore what is known about growth, its constraints and opportunities. And a theory of instruction - and this book is a series of exercises in such a theory - is in effect a theory of how growth and development are assisted by diverse means