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Compatibility Of Lindworsky’S Theory Of Motives With Freedom Of The Will, John J. Solon

Bachelors’ Theses

The ability to make quick and accurate decisions is the aim of the average nan so, consequently, the matter of choice and decision has always been a subject of inquiry for me. While striving to know more about this power, I have chosen for my subject-matter a field that involves painstaking perusal among intricate, close distinctions. Some interpreters of Johannes Lindworsky, S.J., have maintained that his theory of motives and their influence on the will preclude any freedom of choice. My goal, then, will be to discover if Lindworsky can, consistently with his theory, maintain free-will. If I find that …

Literature For Little Children, Marie A. Ruberg

Bachelors’ Theses

Working in the capacity of one whose duty it is to make the five and six year old child's experience deeper, wider, and more satisfying through the medium of literature the writer has realized that there is an inexhaustible amount of knowledge and appreciation to acquire in order to have a background required for intelligently evaluating literature to be used and for effectively inculcating appreciation for that selection into the children.

Three Periods In The History Of The Indiana State Teachers' Association, Robert Harris

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Tentative Course Of Study For Seventh And Eighth Years' Work In Junior High School Mathematics Meeting The Needs Of Pupils Of Superior, Average, And Low Abilities, Alka L. Van Ulzen

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A Statistical Study Of Intelligence In The Colored High Schools Of Indiana, Charles E. Rochelle

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The Relation Of The 1930 Psychological Examination To Certain Factors Of Freshman Performance In The Indiana State Teachers College 1930-1931, Adolphus Sears

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A Study Of Male Juvenile Delinquency, Nimrod Slaven

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Teaching Spelling In The Sixth Grade, Gertrude Stephany

Bachelors’ Theses

Learning to spell involves the formation of certain habits of mind. The most important is the habit of observing correctly the printed fora of words. Next in importance, and often associated with this habit, is that of hearing words correctly. Nearly all mistakes in spelling result from the failure of children to see and hear correctly.

Problem Solving, Catherine Ryan

Bachelors’ Theses

"A first principle of curriculum determination in arithmetic is: Teach what is useful to average citizens in the everyday affairs of life." This principle is not the only dominating factor. Almost every curriculum has specifics placed there by tradition and speculation. There is considerable uncertainty as to what is useful, and what is not practical. The principle of social utility seems to be gaining prominence. Attempts to discover the 'real' use of arithmetic are being conducted.

Marionettes A Project In The Elementary Schools, Lucille Sohrweide

Bachelors’ Theses

For centuries the puppets and marionettes have held an important place in philosophy and the theater world. A simile comparing mankind with puppets with the gods controlling the strings has long been the favorite of the philosophers. Plato compared man with a doll and his passions to the strings which caused its movements and actions. Aristotle told man to be a puppet of wood to be controlled or guided not by men like themselves, but by the Superior Being.

A Method Of Teaching Common Fractions In Fifth Grade, Lucy M. Williams

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to present a method of teaching common fractions to a fifth grade class, which will be adequate as determined by the results of recent investigations and studies made in this field.

A Comparative Study Of The Intelligence Quotients And Grades Of High School Pupils On Special Courses And Those On Academic Courses, Dale Prout

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A Survey Of Health Education For High School Girls With Recommendations For A Course Of Study For The Indiana State Training School, Mary Fread

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A Study Of Color, Bessie C. Brown

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A Comparative Study Of The Usefulness Of The Different Types Of Graphs Used In Junior High School Mathematics Textbooks, Charles M. Hinton

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Characteristics Of Literature In The Kindergarten And Primary Grades, Ruth Shaughnessy

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature has round a place 1n the school curriculum and it holds an important place. It is included in the curriculum or the Elementary School, and continues through. the High School and University.

Cicero's Moral Philosophy, Wilberta A. Miesen

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show the relationship of Cicero to the moral philosophy of his day and to that which preceded it; and, likewise, the parts which he Incorporated in his own philosophy,

Devices In Spelling, Corinne H. Standish

Bachelors’ Theses

To a large majority of teachers, spelling is a hopeless subject. Frank M. McMurry says in the introduction of "The Teaching of Spelling" by Henry Suzzallo; "It seems to lack the possibility of such rich subject matter as makes reading and history attractive; and to want that organization of its facts that distinguishes every worthy branch of knowledge, since the units that compose it are not thoughts, but merely individual words. In consequence, it is recognized as almost entirely a mechanical study, providing little skill from the teacher, and depending mainly on mere repetition or brute endurance for mastery."

The Rationality Of Belief, Thos. G. Egan

Bachelors’ Theses

In a philosophical discussion it is necessary, before any hope of mutual understanding can be attained, to make clear the meanings in which terms are to be used. this, I believe, is especially true in any investigation concerning the mind. The modern controversies about knowledge, how it is acquired, and whether or not knowledge is really attainable are too numerous to describe. Materialistic systems of philosophy all base their arguments on the central thesis that the mind is the brain and that there is no necessity of supposing a spiritual entity. An inspection of our concepts demonstrates the folly of …

The Relation Of Faith And Reason In The Philosophy Of St. Thomas Aquinas, Leo A. Fendryk

Bachelors’ Theses

The history of philosophy is a story of few problems and many solutions. From Thales of Miletus to Jacques Maritain and Christopher Dawson, man has sought to answer for questions concerning the things of his experience. Those questions are the what, the whence, the why, and the who. Man has answered these questions in a variety of ways, and in his answers he has left behind him his philosophic systems for the ages to interpret.

Tests - Old And New, Edna Miriam Weiscoff

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis concerns itself with a comparison of traditional or subjective tests and new type or objective tests. There are various phases of teaching that must be considered in dealing with this subject of tests. First teachers' marks must be examined in order to see to what extent they are based on tests and on judgment. Types of traditional examinations should be reviewed and compared with new-type tests. The advantages of both types should be considered. I shall give types of objective examinations and list advantages and disadvantages of each. Such concepts as validity, reliability, objectivity, sampling etc. shall be …

The Function Of Play In Education (With Special Reference To Third Grade), Eileen M. Mackin

Bachelors’ Theses

What are we seeking to do in the schools today? Where are we heading in education? The effort to discover what education should accomplish in the light of the contradictory and varied demands of the world of today is the chief problem of the philosophers of education.

Motivation In Character, M. Rosita

Bachelors’ Theses

WHAT IS CHARACTER? Dr. John Dewey puts it down as a commonplace that the end of all schoolwork is the development of character, but the difficulty lies in the execution of it. He gives as the reason for this difficulty of execution, the fact that we have not a clear conception of what character means. "We know what character means in terms of the actions which proceed from it, but we have not a definite conception of it on its inner side, as a system of working forces."

To make a study of this system of inner forces has been …

The Educational Trend In Social Science With A Course Of Study In Sociology For The Senior High School, Clyde Parker

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An Experimental Comparison Of Grammar-Translation Method And Direct Method In The Teaching Of French, Mary Olga Peters

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The Definition Of The Idea -- John Locke, John H. Murphy

Bachelors’ Theses

The mere definition of an idea may not seem to have much bearing upon a system of philosophy. On the surface it may not appear as though it acts as a pivot upon which an epistemological theory revolves. Yet we cannot read any of the works of the English School and not see that is actually the case. Descartes, who was not of the English School, but who through his work supplied enough controversy to give rise to the School, formulated a theory of innate ideas; he used doubt as a method with the intention of doubting everything until he …

The Gifted Child And His Education, Virginia W. Smith

Bachelors’ Theses

The ordinary child is one who is able to enter school at the age of six years and taught by a recent normal school graduate of ordinary mental ability is able with forty or more other children to do the pre¬ scribed work of the first year in not more than nine months, five days a week, attaining at the end of this period a proficiency adequate to begin the prescribed curriculum of the second grade. A child is not an ordinary child if he requires two years or more to do the prescribed work of the first grade; nor …

Freedom Of The Will With Deterministic Opposition, R. Ward Dunphy

Bachelors’ Theses

In our thesis on freedom of the will it is necessary to select a meaning that will make the issue clear, unambiguous and sharply joined. Our discussion will be of no value if the term "freedom of the will" is not clearly understood. The method employed will be to define the term •freedom", the term "will" and then the combined issue "freedom of the will". The purpose of this form will be to clearly enunciate the terms of the proposition, thus offering a com non meeting ground for the discussion. "Freedom" is defined as an absence from any factor, the …

Creative Education, Clara K. Sterk

Bachelors’ Theses

How can we expect to know and understand, much less enjoy the real child in the atmosphere of rigid formality of the traditional school? By stressing the acquisition of knowledge and information, the development of skills and habits, an appeal is made only to the child’s intellectual nature. Thus, we overlook the fact that the child is a personality with more than a memory side; that he is a being com¬ posed of a body and a soul, a mind and a will, which must be trained if he is to live a full life. For the complete realization of …

The Status Of The Dean Of Girls In The High Schools Of Indiana, Winifred E. Brill

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