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An Evaluation Of Music Education Courses, George M. Small

Graduate Thesis Collection

One of the ever-pressing needs in the field of education, and in all phases of life, is constant revaluation of preparation for the task of building a better citizenship. Each individual should develop his talents and abilities to the highest degree in order to be able to contribute to this task of uplifting society.

A Study In Fiddle Tunes From Western North Carolina, David Parker Bennett

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Music at Chapel Hill by David Parker Bennett in 1940.

The Junior High School Music Teachers And Some Problems They May Encounter, Adelaide T. Riley

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is the purpose of this thesis to investigate materials which have a place in revealing the indispensable value of the junior high school teacher. Special attention has been given to personal characteristics, general and musical training, teaching procedure with types of pupils with whom she makes daily contact and outstanding problems with which she may be confronted.

A Survey Of Band Practice Incentives And Rehearsal Techniques In California Central Coast Counties High Schools, Earl Marshall Alcorn

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the most difficult problems for students of the teaching profession is that of formulating the best classroom procedure to follow under actual teaching conditions. Almost universally, young teachers find that the transition between their graduate period of training and their first position involves such a realignment of ideas in this regard as to be highly discouraging.

In their graduate study these prospective teachers learn many practices which are helpful to the problem, but which many times are based on an ideal situation, or one so nearly so as to be foreign to the immediate picture. In music, for …

A Study In The Adaptability Of Text Book Content In Meeting Present Rural School Pupil Achievement In Music, Otto Weigel

Master's Theses

The problem of this thesis is this: the writer believes that the present level of achievement of rural school pupils is somewhat below what it should be to successfully master materials in the ordinary music textbooks as now written and adapted in this state. He believes that study of this problem will be beneficial in the matter of writing future materials or in rearranging the program in music for rural school pupils.

Educational Qualifications And Personality Characteristics Of The Grade Teacher Who Teaches Music, Harriett J. Wright

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this thesis on the educational qualifications and the personality characteristics of the grade teacher is to ascertain whether or not the teacher is given adequate preparation for teaching music in her classroom. The research seems to indicate that comparatively little music training is given students preparing to teach in elementary grades. It is the author's desire that this thesis will bring to the attention of those in charge of teacher training curricula, the need for additional work in the field of music.

A Unit Of Work In Folklore For Secondary Schools With A Sampling Of Hoosier Folklore., Margaret Sweeney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Teachers In Senior Seminaries Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Wendell M. Rigby

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine those qualifications possessed by those certain men and women who were teaching senior seminaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1936-37, and to determine the qualifications which seem to have made those persons eligible for selection as teachers in those seminaries.

A Preliminary Study Of Duplication In The Courses Of Study Prepared For Ten Youth Organizations Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Covering The Ten-Year Period September, 1927 To August, 1937, Alfred C. Nielsen

Theses and Dissertations

The problem is to make a preliminary study of duplication in the courses of study in ten youth oganizations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a ten-year period, September, 1927 to August, 1937, with the purpose of discovering the nature and extent of a duplication in material that young people from four to twenty years of age have met as they have participated in the classes of various Church organizations.

A Study Of The Administration And Organization Of The High School Band In Western Kansas, Paul H. Andree

Master's Theses

This study is a scientific investigation to determine the educational values of band instruction as a part of the curriculum as well as the accepted methods of procedure, organization and administration of the high school band in Western Kansas. It is obvious that in such an extensive survey as this, it is necessary that the factors involved be limited to certain particular phases of the problem. For this reason and since the greatest outward appearance of advance in the band movement has been made in the past decade in Western Kansas the present survey will present the situation as found …

The Public Relations Program Of The Alameda City Schools, Harold V. Lajeunesse

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Public relations programs have been generally characterized as having as their purpose the indoctrination of the public along lines favorable to a commodity, a service, or an idea. In education, there seems to be a growing realization that the function of a public relational program in the school system is the utilization of all of the agencies of a community toward the end of accomplishing the objectives of the public schools. This realization has been further stimulated as educators have recognized that isolation from the community is often detrimental to the aims of the schools. In broadening the scope of …

Creative Music, Marjorie Mclennan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The author has endeavored in this thesis to present the subject of creative music in its two wide aspects, theory and practice.

Part I gives the educational background for presenting music through the creative medium. It is a brief review of selected literature in the creative field.

Part II presents the practical side of developing a creative program in poetry, notation, rhythm and art.

An Evaluation Of Tests Of Musical Talent, Herbert Clark Levan

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The problem consists of an evaluation of tests of musical ability to discover which tests are most reliable and useful for elementary school purposes.

In a review of the literature related to the problem an attempt was made to present different viewpoints fairly, to summarize evidence of outstanding tests, to analyze contradictory evidences for possible solution of the questions involved, and to set up criteria for the selection of the best tests.

For further evidence, four selected batteries of comparatively new tests were given to over one thousand children in grades two to six in the schools of Parsons, Kansas. …

The Significance Of The Work Of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker In The Progressive Educational Movement With Special Reference To His Influence On John Dewey, Lea Bevan Moore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Our American forefathers, with the exception of Thomas Jefferson, had no ideal of a system of universal education. His plans were throttled by slavery, but the doctrine of universal education lived. Then at a time when the whole system of common schools was in danger of failure Horace Mann gave his life to the promotion of the interests of the Common school.

In 1837, the very year Horace Mann gave up his prospect of a famous political career to become Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts, Francis Wayland Parker was born in New Hampshire, and was destined …

Research Problem Pertaining To Growth And Development Of The Child Voice With Course Of Study, May Dorsey

Graduate Thesis Collection

In presenting this thesis, the author has used the research problem pertaining to the growth and development of the child voice, and as an outcome has set forth the content of a course of study in music to include aims, procedures, and materials for grade schools, which are necessary for a varied and well grounded musical experience.

A Comparative Study Of The Treatment Of The American Revolution Of 1776 In Some Secondary School History Textbooks Used Currently In England And In The United States Of America., Louise Shelley Powell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Music Supervision, Stanley Norris, B. M.

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is the purpose of this thesis to investigate materials which have a place in the development of supervision as it concerns the special subject of music in the curricula of the public schools. Special attention has been given to the investigation of the training in supervision as given by schools, colleges, and universities in the hope that these institutions may better adapt their curricula to meet the needs of the modern music supervisor.

Training And Requirements Of Indianapolis Teachers 1821-1935, Fay M. Banta

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation endeavors to show the changes that have taken place in teachers and in teaching in Indianapolis since the days of its first schoolhouse.

Projects To Stimulate Appreciation Of Literature In Secondary Schools, Emily B. Jacob Mccain

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Progressive educators have realized the crying need for schooling that will carry over into purposeful living in later life. After much experimentation and serious study, the conclusion has been made that the individual differences and interests of the students have often defeated successful teaching of literature by the old method. The use of projects is one of the most valuable ways of according careful consideration and attention to these individual differences and interests in the teaching of literature.

This study of the project in secondary literature courses has been made through visits to schools, interviews with teachers and students, questionnaires, …

Costs In The Senior Seminaries Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Harold S. Nelson

Theses and Dissertations

Stated in the form of a question, the problem of this study is: What are the expenditures and costs of senior seminaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

Specifically, this study proposes to answer the following secondary questions which are relevant to the problem:
(1) What are the expenditures for the establishment, maintenance, and "current expense" of the senior seminaries in the Church of Jesus Chrsit of Latter Day Saints?
(2) What are the certain "unit-costs" in the senior seminaries?

Handbook On Teacher Reading In Junior And Senior High School, Reba Galvin Mack

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Two thousand high school students in Wisconsin were tested recently in reading; one-third of them tested as sixth grade or below in reading ability.¹ One of the most difficult problems confronting the schools of America today is "How shall we make good readers of our students?" That no educators are satisfied with the reading accomplishments in our schools is attested by the great number of articles on reading that appear in current periodicals and educational journals and by the increasing number of books on reading that are being published. So great is the flood on technical treatises on the …

School Music Education In California, Beatrice Marjorie Hunt

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The selection of the subject "School Music Education in California" was prompted by the author's interest in the field of school music. This thesis is the result of research to discover the beginnings of music in our public institutions of learning, to trace those forces which have been instrumental in its growth, and to consider the present status of music education in the schools of California.

Music And The Child, Leo Dejan

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

The Reign Of Terror Was A Natural Consequence Of Preceeding Incidents, Octave P. Smith

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

A History Of Education In Mexico Since 1857, Alma S. Andrews

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to give an outline of the marked progress of education in Mexico since 1857, the date of the final separation of church and state.

Having taught tor several years in Americanization schools, the writer has experienced close contact with all classes of Mexicans. Consequently, this study has been entered into for the purpose of bringing about a better understanding of the peculiar needs of the people and of the problems confronting the Mexican nation as a whole.

It is the sincere hope of the writer that this work will absorb the interest or those …

The Catholic Spirit In Modern Poetry, Anna Lacaze

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

1. All art sas its underlying philosophy. Poetry which is one of the greatest printed branches of art, has its philosophies which vary greatly indeed. Some poets hold as their philosophy that the highest form of beauty is purely natural and they sing the praises of beauty of form, figure etc. Others hold that the highest form of beauty is intellectual and these praise and glorify the beauty of a well ordered mind. While others hold that man was made for God, and that God is the highest form of beauty. These attempt to portray the relationship of man to God, …

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Newman The Master Of Prose Writer, Aline Pepin

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

1. In every period of history there are some characters which stand out very prominently for some great achievement, idea or movement. On some occasions one individual occupies this place of honor, as in the case of Napoleon after he saw gallantly quelled the revolt in the city of Toulon during the Revolutionary War. Literature, like history, has its heroes who, with their pen, influence the world. The 19th century produce the diversity of religious opinion and inquiry, colored by the delicacy of expression which is characteristic of the time. The Victorian age enjoyed the many “masters of expression" for it …

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A Study Of Music Education In The Senior High Schools Of Western Kansas, William Robert Horn

Master's Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to present the following specific facts regarding music education in the State of Kansas. (1) To survey the general status of music in the senior high schools of Western Kansas; (2) To ascertain the professional preparation and teaching experience of the music teachers in these schools; (3) To make a survey of the teaching load of the music teacher; (4) To learn the equipment of the music departments; (5) To study the finance and financing of the music departments; (6) To survey the music courses of the senior high schools; (7) To learn of …

The Catholic Spirit In Modern Poetry, Anna Lacaze

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.

The Teaching Of Negro History In Elementary School, David J. Jackson

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.