Social education for young children, with a moral component, can be achieved by means of a Guided Primary Social Curriculum. The earliest years give most opportunity for work of this kind, before official curricula become more prescriptive. This social curriculum involves starting from children's own experience but proceeding by means of interactive guidance. In an approach of this kind, teachers extend children's perceptions by leading them towards subjects as perspectives, through a sequence of themes of increasing complexity of understanding. An example is suggested: TAXIS. Subsequent age-groups, and implications for teachers are considered.
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