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A Study Of The Contribution Of Adolphe Stagg To The Cultural And Social Life Of South Central Louisiana, Myron Hayden Stagg

OBU Graduate Theses

Adolphe Stagg (1 834-1 914) lived and worked in South Central Louisiana during the latter two-thirds of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. During a forty-year period, 1874-1 91 4 he served as a minister, private school teacher (1876), Tax Assessor (1 877), and member of the Louisiana House of Represen­tatives.4 He served in these posts with distinction, influence, and honor. To adequately define his contributions to the social and cul­tural life of the area and to the protestant religious development of his time, the background of his life and the cultural life of South …

Ouachita Baptist University Graduate Catalog 1968-1969, Ouachita Baptist University

OBU Catalogs

This is the 1968-1969 Graduate Catalog of Ouachita Baptist University, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Motivation To Creativity: Responsibility Of The Elementary Teacher, Charolette Ann Duckett

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper shall be to explore the nature and characteristics of creativity and to try to understand what atmosphere and discipline best motivates children to be creative.

Creativity has been termed synonymous with inventiveness, imagination, and originality. In the educational viewpoint, there are other, more complete ways to define this word. Creative teaching once meant correlating art, music, writing or dramatics with other subjects. Now, however, it has been expanded to cover more than in the past. Morse and Wingo discuss creativity as "seeing or expressing new relationships."

The Ouachitonian 1968, Ouachitonian Staff

OBU Yearbooks: The Ouachitonian

The 1968 Ouachita Baptist University yearbook, The Ouachitonian, records the events of this college year. Its goal is to remind readers of pleasant memories and enduring friendships formed at OBU, as well as of the students, faculty, staff, organizations, and events that shaped OBU in 1968.

A Survey Of Public Junior And Senior High School Band Directors: Opinions Concerning Rated Band Festivals In The State Of Arkansas, Robert E. Adams

OBU Graduate Theses

The purpose of the study was to determine the opinions of the public school band directors of Arkansas concerning the administration of the rated rend and its musical and educational value to the students and directors of bands. Various opinions exist concerning the desirable and undesirable aspects of such programs.

Harold C. Hind states:"There have been several arguments advanced against contesting, chief among them being the plea that time devoted to working up a test piece could be more profitably employed in improving the general repertoire of the band."

However, Hind later states: "Every band should make a point of …

An Analytical Survey Of The Elementary Music Program In The Class Aa Schools Of Arkansas, Rosemary Langley

OBU Graduate Theses

Varying methods of instruction in music have been employed in public schools. A regular re-evaluation of what is being done in the public schools is necessary in order that the children of each generation receive the proper training for their musical instruction.

It was the purpose of this study to investigate and evaluate the elementary music programs in the Class AA schools of Arkansas.

The Conflict Of Idealism And Naturalism In The Works Of Katherine Anne Porter: Fiction In Search Of Reality, Frances Cantrell Wolber

OBU Graduate Theses

Katherine Anne Porter is the internationally known novelist and short story writer who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for her work, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Miss Porter, a near octogenarian from Texas, has done a regional type story with settings in Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central Europe (Germany) and the Old South.

Her life parallels her work in many instances, to a minor degree, but both confront good and evil in situations and episodes, and her works and philosophies are developed by the literary and philosophical media of idealism and naturalism. Her honesty forces her to …

Philosophy Division Report, Mark T. Coppenger, Allen Eaton, Allen Hampton

Honors Theses

In compliance with the Honors Program, the Philosophy Department has completed a comparative study of our department with ten other colleges and universities of similar size. The purpose of this study has been to obtain information by which to evaluate the Philosophy Department and to make suggestions to strengthen the department.

Social Science Division Honors Seminar, Spring 1968, Carol Kimbrough, Kathryn Shaddox, Walter Ellis, Cloene Biggs, Peggy Woodruff

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Problems Teachers Face While Teaching In Mixed Racial And Ethnic Classrooms, Linda Lee Hearn

Honors Theses

God taught us an important lesson: when communication stops, progress is halted. Today as then, differences not understood and a lack of communication can cause a stopping of progress.

In today's world of change, the classroom becomes the only true melting pot of our nation. As more and more peoples are brought together, the need for teachers who are able to function in such situations, becomes greater and greater. There can be no hard and fast rules for the handling of situations since the number of possible problems and occurrences surrounding them is infinite; but it must be realized that …

A Survey Of Styles And Techniques Used By Arkansas High School Marching Bands In 1967-68, Doyle Glenn Combs

OBU Graduate Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine styles and techniques being used by high school marching bands in the state of Arkansas.

The Structure Of A Community Action Agency For A Democratic Process, William Tom Buzbee

OBU Graduate Theses

For several years because of change or the lack of change, an increasing number of the population of the United States have been the ranks of the poor. The Community Action Program was designed to give a voice to the poor. Due to the fact that Community Action Agencies were new, their function and objective may not have been understood.

This study has been concerned with the problem of poverty in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and the efforts of the Lincoln Total Community Action Agency, Inc., organized under provisions of the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act passed by the United States Congress, …

Certain Sociological Perceptions Of Nurses In Pulaski County, Arkansas, Mary Ann Todd

OBU Graduate Theses

In the last fifty years, the nation's population has more than doubled while the number of workers needed in the health fields has quadrupled. Shortages in all the health professions exist with the shortage in nursing being the most serious. Currently the national supply of active nurses is 640,000. The Surgeon General's Consultant Group on Nursing has established a need of 850,000 professional nurses by 1970, although 680,000 by 1970 is a more realistic goal.

Environment: A Cause Of Mental Retardation, Carol Kimbrough

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Group Psychotherapy With Underachievers, Marty Mcdonald

Honors Theses

The aim of this paper is to point out the opportunities and possibilities of group psychology in helping underachievers particularly at the college level. Due to lack of available information on this topic, it was necessary first to examine group psychotherapy and underachievers separately and then to try correlating the two areas.

An Experiment In Discovery Learning, Juanita Nicholson

Honors Theses

In recent years new attitudes toward how people learn have been greatly expanded and developed. These new thoughts have been utilized in the area of music education as well as other areas of education. New methods of piano instruction are but one facet of the change in music education, and this is the area which I have undertaken to explore.

A Study Of What Should Characterize The Education Program Of The Mentally Retarded Child, Charolette Ann Duckett

Honors Theses

It is the purpose of this paper to explore the qualities which are necessary to a program of education of the severely mentally handicapped--those who are termed the "educable mentally retarded" and those who are termed the "trainable mentally retarded." I will give a definition of these terms, followed by a short sketch of the history of education for the mentally deficient. I will then try to give some idea of what the goals of special education have become today, and what sort of teacher attitudes, training, and educational principles should be used in relation to teaching these exceptional children.

High School Guidance Counseling As A Vocation, Janice Elaine Tucker

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper is to explore the field of high school guidance counseling as a vocation. The discussion includes information regarding guidance counseling in the United States in general and Arkansas specifically. The personal and educational requirements for guidance counseling are discussed as well as the requirements for establishing an adequate counseling program in a high school.

Counseling procedures and problems are included because counseling is one of the basic responsibilities of the guidance counselor; however, these areas are discussed only generally. A detailed study would constitute a separate paper.

A Study Of The Curriculum Of The Natural Science Division Of Ouachita Baptist University, Natural Sciences Group

Honors Theses

In our evaluation of the curriculum of the Natural Science Division, we began by reviewing the catalogue descriptions of our courses and evaluating whether the courses meet the objectives given. To do this we divided into departments since our division is so large. Next, we wrote to Hendrix, Little Rook University, Southwestern at Memphis, and State College of Arkansas and compared their course offerings with ours. In this comparison we discovered our strengths and weaknesses and changes that need to be made in our present curriculum. In several cases we decided upon possible alterations which would aid the student going …

An Analysis Of The Calculus Program, Verna Gail Ray

Honors Theses

This paper explores the course background students' need to be successful in in calculus, and assesses Ouachita Baptist University's mathematics courses in mathematics.

The Influence Of Teachers' Behavior On Elementary Children, Lynda Bearden

Honors Theses

It is in the classroom that a child has to first accept the authority of a relative stranger. This stranger, the child's teacher, rarely realizes the profound impact that her attitude, demands, and actions make on that child.

One area in which the classroom teacher wields a frightening amount of influence is in the personality development of her students. It is imperative that the teacher be happy in the profession and that she like children if she is to have a positive effect on them. Too often a student discovers that she isn't suited to classroom teaching only after she …

A Study Of The Physics Curriculum Of Ouachita Baptist University, James Mccarty

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper is to compare the physics curriculum of Ouachita Baptist University with those of several other colleges with the ultimate goal of finding what changes, if any, should by made. Four colleges and universities were used for comparison. Hendrix College is a Methodist college which had an enrollment of 757 during the 1965-66 school year. State College of Arkansas is a state-supported school with 3,129 students during the same year. Little Rock University is a private school which is aided by the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. It had 2,851 students in 1965-66. Southwestern at Memphis …

Modern Mathematics In Secondary Education, Sandra Lee Sawyer

Honors Theses

Until recently, the mathematics curriculum in elementary and secondary schools had been relatively unchanged for a century or more. While both elementary and secondary school programs are undergoing special studies, the most extensive curriculum projects to date have been focused on the secondary school.

First, let us consider the purpose of modern math. There has been much criticism about changing from the traditional math to the modern math. As mathematician Allendoerfer explains: "More than anything else, the new math is a new approach to old ideas, a mixture of intuition, deduction, and application."