child-centred

I always had a child-centred approach and I often took the child's side if I thought they hadn't been able to explain themselves very well or been understood.

Leonora Rustamova: I taught my pupils to enjoy books – and got fired 2011

Buildings were still smouldering and shards of glass still glittering grimly on the pavement as rightwing commentator Melanie Phillips weighed in to pin the blame on a "three-decade liberal experiment" that saw the end of widespread academic selection, and too much emphasis on "child-centred" learning.

The crisis facing Britain's education system 2011

His output since has remained similarly arch – much of it features his face in iconic images such as Che Guevara – and also increasingly child-centred.

Gavin Turk's fairytale project 2011

In fact, she came to my attention via a review of her latest book (The Death and Life of the American School System: How testing and choice are undermining education) in the New York Review, where she comes across as fierce opponent of the trendy “anti-bookish, child-centred” reform movements that, she claims, have destroyed American education.

T is for Taboo « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Anyone who has been in that state might well see, in Clegg's exhausted pallor, and Cameron's obvious lack of grip, the result of a generation that is having children older, and raising them when, as Nora Ephron has observed, this has been redesignated "parenting" and become a project requiring unending, child-centred sacrifice: "Parenting carried with it the implicit assumption that any time is quality time if the parent is in attendance."

Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett 2011

Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach | Society | The Guardian

Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach 2011

I'm about to have a baby myself, so I have started thinking about Plan as something I can connect to as a parent, given their child-centred approach to development.

'I was surprised how moved I felt when I heard I was sponsoring a little girl' 2011

With the maturing of the "men's movement" into more child-centred lobbying and support groups, and with rising numbers of divorce lawyers moving into mediation work and away from adversarial courtrooms, there is a growing understanding of the raw deal many fathers – and children – have been getting from the secretive British family court system.

Childhood casualties of the family courts Tracy McVeigh 2010

It is refreshing to read Martin Narey's child-centred approach to the question of adoption Adoptions need to quadruple, says Narey, 22 January.

Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach 2011

In order to ensure that the project got off the ground while her children were still young enough to attend it, she downgraded the creche to an extended nanny-share group, to which fellow creative parents soon flocked for child-centred self-expression exercises and sushi lunches.

Gavin Turk's fairytale project 2011