Editing Worldpedia:Today's featured article/March 7, 2025

{{Main page image/TFA|Which is your Right Hand? A study in an Infant School. (Graphic, 1898).jpg|caption=Illustration of an infant class}}
The '''[[history of infant schools in Great Britain]]''' began in 1816, when the first [[infant school]] was founded in [[New Lanark]], Scotland. It was followed by other [[Philanthropy|philanthropic]] infant schools across Great Britain. Infant teaching came to include [[character education|moral education]], [[exercise]], and an authoritative but friendly teacher. Infant schools increased the education that many children received before leaving school to work. [[State school|State-funded schools]] in England and Wales were advised in 1840 to include infant departments. Infant education came under pressure to achieve quick academic progress, notably through [[rote learning]]. Beginning in 1905, infant lessons in England and Wales shifted towards more [[Student-centered learning|child-centred]] methods of teaching, where education was meant to reflect the preferences of children. The child-centred approach reached its peak following [[Plowden Report|a report in 1967]]. In 1988, a more centralised curriculum was introduced. The term "infant department" was used widely in Scotland in the 1960s but is no longer much used there. {{TFAFULL|History of infant schools in Great Britain}}

{{TFArecentlist|
* [[Les Holden]]
* [[Leroy Chollet]]
* [[James Madison]]
}}

{{TFAfooter|Month=March|Year=2025}}