ABSTRACT
The definition of educational aims used in this chapter is as follows: they are statements about the directions in which one wishes to go. They may be broad or narrow, general or specific. For example, it may be an aim that children should use and develop their powers of communication; or that they should spell in conventional ways. Aims are different from objectives, which identify either a final or an intermediate level of achievement. Aims do not, for instance, propose which or how many words should be spelt conventionally at a given stage of a child’s education; but an objective may.
