Definition of "child-centered" []

• Designed to promote a child's personal qualities rather than to provide training or information (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A full day also allows teachers to make more time for child-centered play and hands-on activities, two important approaches to learning that many parents worry are missing in today's kindergartens."
• "Not when it would get in the way of feel-good, child-centered multicultural nonesense like “whole language”."
• "A Piagetian-inspired curriculum emphasizes a child-centered educational philosophy or what we call "teaching the whole child.""