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The Nervous Child, Miriam Wolfson

Bachelors’ Theses

Nervousness is not, as it is commonly thought, a disease of the nerves from the physical point of view. It is rather a functional disorder affecting the patient as a whole, especially mentally. Nervousness may be described as an excessive activity of the nervous system, resulting in a peculiar type of response to the ordinary stimuli of life and showing itself in such symptoms as over activity, temper, irritability or restlessness.

Education Through Recreation, Marjory C. Wolf

Bachelors’ Theses

"All work and no play will make Jack a dull boy." Educators throughout the world to-day are beginning to realize the significance of said words. Shorter working hours, and the demand for mechanical power and devices, is increasing leisure very rapidly. It is just as necessary to prepare for the leisure time of life as it is for the work time of life, and what the great mass of people will do during their leisure time is the problem we are concerned with. When not at work one must choose between play and idleness - and Carlyle says, "Nine-tenths of …

The Project Method In Education, Ralph O. Paff

Bachelors’ Theses

Hence our problem is to determine what the desirable things are that children may do, what means we may use to develop and teach these things, and by what standards we may judge the efficiency of our teaching. Much of the subject matter and many of the habits formed in our schools do not conform to desirable social life outside of school. For instance, we tell children not to receive help from or give help to anyone in an examination or test. To do so is unfair. Yet we ask children to be mutually helpful, to assist the needy, and …

Health Work In The Elementary And Grammar Grades And Its Motivation, Alice Thies

Bachelors’ Theses

If we examine a school curriculum made a half century ago, we shall find that the course in health instruction at that time consisted of lessons on bodily structure. Upon examination of later curricula, we shall find a gradual change in content to that of health instruction. Within the last few years, added knowledge concerning nutrition and growth, physical defects with their causes and results, and mental hygiene, has led to the realization that there must be new objectives and principles for the course in school hygiene. By referring to recent books, magazines, and addresses on this subject, I have …

The Influence Of Horace Mann On American Education, M. Carol Fleischmann

Bachelors’ Theses

The ordinary individual believes implicitly in the principle of causality, whether he has learned to couch it in the precise language of the metaphysician, "Every effect requires a sufficient cause", or, whether to his untutored mind "Some­thing don't happen from nothing" A stranger travelling the length and breadth of this country could not fail to be im­pressed with the material provisions which state and commun­ity have made for the education of America's youthful generation. Buildings rivalling each other in beauty of architec­tural design, equipment of a superior order, rolling campuses of inviting beauty,--these would be the first characteristics of our …

The Teaching Of English In The Junior High School, Louise Knowlton

Bachelors’ Theses

The study of the English lenguege and its literature occupies a unique position among the studies of the secondary school--a position supported by universal recognition for its importance to all pupils. No other subject can compare with it in the amount of attention afforded throughout the secondary-school course or in the extent to which it meets the needs of all pupils. The importance of the study of the mother tongue and its literature seems to be quite generally recognized. It requires a careful analysis and interpretation of its special values and purposes. It is only when these are properly conceived …

Latin Has Always Held Prominence As An Educational Factor, R M

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rome one of the greatest powers of the ancient world has exerted important influence upon practically all modern nations. It has done much to shape the lives and customs of the people is necessary to obtain an understanding of our language, our literature, our religion our art and out government. This fact makes Latin as their language, and important topic for study by all nations in all ages.

Latin Has Always Held Prominence As An Educational Factor, R M. Chissell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Present Status Of Teacher Tenure In Indiana, George D. Goodnight

Graduate Thesis Collection

Within recent years the problem of tenure of teachers has received its due share of attention from the leading educational authorities, many of whom have written upon the subject. By the expression, "tenure of teachers", used in this dissertation and in the works of present day writers of educational theory, we mean the security of position of teachers, provided for them either by local board rulings or by laws enacted by state legislatures.

Teaching Geography By The Problem Method In The Intermediate Grades, Burnette Silbar

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of writing this paper is to give a general survey of geography by the problem method.

Religious Contents In School Readers, Mary Leocadis

Bachelors’ Theses

A task worthy of the wisest minds and of the biggest efforts is to place before the young a series of reading books that will contain noble and elevating thoughts and inspiring ideals, the best that has been enshrined in the literature of ages. Whatever may be gleamed from the glorious past that will contribute to the better and holier living of the present is, by right, the heritage of the youth of today. A reading book, therefore, should be a collection of the sayings and writings of the best and noblest men. "Nothing," says Professor Brooks, "in the entire …

A Study Of The Exceptional Child, C. Elizabeth Haisler

Bachelors’ Theses

The content of this paper is based on ten years of personal observation and close study of the problem presented by the Exceptional Child.

The Objectives Of Primary Reading, Leona L. Zarling

Bachelors’ Theses

Recent investigations in reading have shown us the need for adaptation of methods to the needs of modern social life, and the broadening of the school curriculum. The National committee on Reading has adopted three major objectives of reading.

The first of these is to give rich and varied experience in reading. Since reading aims to prepare a child to live a fuller and more intelligent life, early reading should aid in establishing a good fund of information, and thereby should broaden his interests and help him to understand and interpret future situations. Care in selection of materials will help …

Prevocational Guidance, Burton L. Ambrose

Bachelors’ Theses

A critical appreciation of the historical aspects of any contemporary educational movement is important. All modern social programs have their roots in the past. Our modern world is not static. No civilization rests on permanent changeless foundations. All reveal a growing changing organism. Development is the keynote, of what we often presume to call, progress. Movements, which were important a generation ago, have ceased to register a present value. Society is in a constant state of flux, and at no two periods have conditions been the same.

Care And Education Of The Defective School Child, Mathew Barkley

Bachelors’ Theses

In the past, we have either paid too much attention to the defective child, to the detriment of the normal child­ren in the schools, or in a majority of the cases we have neglected him entirely. We must figure out a system of education which will take care of him adequately without working a hardship on the children who are able to do the regular school work. We must measure hie capabilities and gauge his work according to hie ability.

Health Education In The Elementary School, Alice E. Hager

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to give the purpose of health education in the curriculum; to define health and health education; and to present methods and drills for health education in the elementary school.

Teaching Citizenship In The Grades, Catherine U. Hogan

Bachelors’ Theses

Within the last twenty years, the aims and methods of teaching citizenship have changed very materially Formerly, a knowledge of the facts of government was deemed sufficient to make a good citizen, but recent history of men in high offices has proven that such is not the case.

Diganostic And Remedial Reading In The Primary Grades, Myrtle C. Merritt

Bachelors’ Theses

"READING is both the most important and the most trouble-sane subject in the elementary school curriculum," (1) The importance of this subject is recognized by educators everywhere. Recent years have brought forth a particularly large number of investigations in this subject. William Scott Gray (2) in his Summary of Investigations Relating to Reading, Chapter II, gives a. historical sketch of such investigations. Many of these had their beginnings in European experiments which paved the way for the work in American laboratories by Lough,· Delabarre, Huey Dodge, Dearborn, Judd, Freeman, Schmidt, C.T. Gray; Buswell and others. For example, C. T. Gray …

Teaching Reading In The First Grade, Florence E. Moran

Bachelors’ Theses

Reading is not only the most important, but also the most widely discussed and complex subject in the school curriculum. It is the most important, for it is intimately related to all the other school subjects and is essential to every branch of knowledge. Without a knowledge of reading the pupil cannot engage effectively in any desirable life activity. Its primary importance in the curriculum may be gauged by the relatively large amount of time devoted to the subject, the countless number of ingenious teaching devices, the many scientific investigations, as well as the thorough and recent research work done …

Book Aids For The Teacher Of Geography In The Elementary School, Stella M. Frye

Bachelors’ Theses

In America, the development of the study of geography has been very slow, and until recent years, this country could boast of very few geographers, and had made little progress in the field of geographic research. Germany and France have long been leaders in this field, and some of the moot reliable authorities on the subject are the French and German geographers. Almost every country in Europe "now has its professional geographers and geography has long been recognized as a subject for independent study and research."

Report Of The Belen, New Mexico School Survey, Vernon C. Tolle

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to compare the Belen Schools in general with other schools of the State and with accepted educational principles and standards.

Variation In Human Capacities, Flaucy Ives

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Individuals of the same age vary widely in every trait that has been measured or estimated. They differ in height, weight, character, taste, intellect, strength or in other words, in all things

Every human being is endowed with the same reflexes, instincts and capacities, each individual has powers of perception, discrimination attentiveness, retentiveness, reasoning etc., and as a result each has the same general qualitative make-up.

But as was said above individuals vary in every trait, "these differences are quantitative rather than qualitative".

The Rise Of The Short Story In American Letters, Mary M. Barra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Variation In The Human Capacities, Ives Flaucy

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The Place Of Private And Church Schools In The Education Of The State, Anna Elizabeth Falls

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In considering the relation of the private, parochial and denominational schools to the education of the State, it is well to bear in mind Sargent's statement that in that last analysis there is no such thing as a private school; that all schools are doing a public work, the work of the community in educating prospective citizens. It is this fact, that education in our American democracy has for its aim the making of a progressive and stable nation through efficiently trained citizens, each in his individual capacity and through his individual interests, that makes the problem of education difficult …

Truancy In The Public Schools : Its Cause And Cure., Kathleen Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this age in which we live it is not hard to find a problem but it is often difficult to choose one. These problems have arisen as a result of the complex social and industrial institutions which have evolved as a result of human inventiveness and the competition among men to better our living conditions and increase our comforts. According to statistics compiled by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the proportion of those who enjoy these modern conveniences is small when compared to those who have suffered as a result. The problem of this study is one which …

A Psychological And Educational Study Of The Language Factors Of The American Research Council. Psychological Examinations Administered To Freshmen At The College Of The Pacific In The Years 1925, 1926, And 1928, Chester Livingston Hoar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine, as far as possible, the extant to which the language-factor tests included in present psychological examinations administered to freshmen at the Collage of the Pacific are reliable as factors contributing to an estimate of the capacities of the individuals examined.

This necessitates a study of both the gross and language-factor tests scores

In making the study, the results of examinations given in three years,—1925, 1926, and 1928, —were utilized. The total number of cases included in these years was 560, a sufficient number to warrant the placing of considerable reliance upon the …

Development Of Secondary Education In Indianapolis, Gertrude Mescall

Graduate Thesis Collection

Secondary education is the organized effort of society through its schools to aid the normal processes of growth and to produce desirable changes in attitutde, ideals, and behavior of boys and girls during the periods of early and middle adolescence. It is customary to consider the maximum period for receiving education from six to about twenty-five years; the period from twelve to eighteen is the suitable period to term the period of secondary education, the center of any educational system. In other words the secondary school is concerned primarily with boys and girls in their teens.

Methods Of Improving The Handwriting Ability Of Commercial Students In Order To Meet The Demands Of Various Vocations, D. Clyde Beighey

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is, of course, evident that handwriting is used almost as universally for expressing thought as is speech. The utilitarian value of handwriting to every individual in the home, in school, and in the business office ranks it of major importance among the school subjects. Handwriting also plays an essential part in almost every subject that is taught in the public schools.

An Accounting System For Funds Within The High School, Werner H. Monninger

Graduate Thesis Collection

All high schools today are engaged in activities which are concerned with the receipt and expenditure of money. Most schools have athletic games, entertainments, and clubs. Some schools conduct a lunchroom, a bookstore; publish a newspaper, a school annual; and in many cases engage in a number of other activities which produce revenue. Then, too, there are funds within the school resulting from fines, fees, sales of old paper, etc. which must be properly accounted for.