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Defining Civic Mindedness: A Study Of The Butler Community Arts School, Emma Edick
Defining Civic Mindedness: A Study Of The Butler Community Arts School, Emma Edick
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
The term “civic-mindedness” is broad, but it relates to specific experiences and behaviors we, as citizens and members of communities across the country, live out in our daily lives. But what does the term’s definition boil down to? I conducted a study to complete my thesis for the Butler University Honors Program, starting with the question: how is “civic-mindedness” defined in our culture and in what ways do the arts, specifically, impact an individual’s development of civic-mindedness? To answer this question, I focused on the dual mission statement of the Butler Community Arts School (BCAS), which reads, “…providing quality arts …
A Comparison Of Institutional Children And Children From Natural Homes In The Same Public School, Helen Frick
A Comparison Of Institutional Children And Children From Natural Homes In The Same Public School, Helen Frick
Graduate Thesis Collection
This study was made for the purpose of comparing the intelligence, scholastic achievement, retardtion , educational training after the elementary school, type of employment and marital status of two groups of individals who attended the George B. Loomis School of the Public Schools of Indianapolis, Indiana in the ten-year period, 1931 to 1941. The members of one group lived in an institution under the direction of a family welfare organization while the members of group two lived in natural homes. Many from both groups are adults now.