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Articulation Of Junior And Senior High School Curricula, Belle Joachims

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Our American school system with its distinction between elementary and secondary schools grew out of European tradisione. The history of secondary education in America abone that there have been three periods of development, each characterized by a dietinot type of school. As our colonial policies were shaped by Europeans, naturally our schools were organized to confora with the European institutions; and the Latin grammar school was the dominant institution for secondary education in American until the middle of the eighteenth century. During the Revolutionary period there was a tendency to turn from the school fostering social distinction to one more …

A Study Of The Vocational Placement Of Pupils Of The Elementary And High Schools, Robert Louie Colthart

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There was a time when people could go West and become empire builders; when there was little competition, but the resources which nature provided so abundantly no longer exist in their vastness. Pioneers and adventurers have skinned the cream of these luxuries. It is necessary now for science and its cohorts to substitute skill, knowledge, and training for the vagrancies of chance and its dependence upon fate.

There was a time when a boy raised on a farm had to stay on the farm; there was no city where he could find work. There was a time when the village …

The Teaching Of Catholic Ideals : Grade Placement, Grade Emphasis, And Determination Of Curriculum Material In The Form Of Virtue Applications, Ellamay Horan

Dissertations

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A Proposed Personnel Program For The Small College, Cecille Hyson Egan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Attempt To Appraise The Standing Of Biology As A Subject Of Instruction In High School, Mary Fidelis

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Modern Languages In The Grades As A Means Of Provision For Superior Children, Mary Alexander Gannon

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Youth And Art, Madge Anderson

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis represents in part the effect that my recent study at Marquette University has had upon my work. In the light of this study I have re-viewed the problems of art education and re-formed my theories about it. This paper presents the philosophy at which I have arrived concerning Youth and Art.

Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick

Bachelors’ Theses

The end of all education should be the formation of character. Father Hull defines character as "life dominated by principles". No sentence containing four words expresses more food for thought. Life is made up of thoughts, words, and actions. The problem is how are these thoughts, words, and actions determined? The man without character acts upon impulse and he speaks and acts as these impulses seize him. If such a man's life is at all consistent it is because he lacks any originality or initiative to do otherwise. His character depends upon his impulses, or upon the good or bad …

Public Opinion And The Textbooks In History, Agnes Ward

Bachelors’ Theses

Sir Robert Peel called public opinion a great compound of folly, weakness, and prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. However it is the great force which has been constantly at work through the ages, sometimes helpfully, sometimes harmfully, molding human history. the introduction of the printing press made books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers a popular medium for its expression. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, when history formally became an integral part of the curriculum of our great public school system, there has been developed a suspicion among individuals and groups that the subject might easily …

The Vocational Guidance Movement With Special Reference To Organization For Milwaukee, Bessie E. Buckley

Bachelors’ Theses

Vocational Guidance is defined by the National Vocational Guidance Association as "The Giving of information, experience, and advice in regard to choosing an occupation, preparing for it, entering it, and progressing in it." In following the development of vocational guidance in the U.S. from its earliest beginnings to the present time we find leaders of industry and education interested in it. This study is an effort to find through the history of this development whether industry or education may be considered. the legitimate agency through which this movement might be expeoted to find its most successful leadership in Milwaukee.

A Brief History Of The Development Of Physical Education, Louis A. Zinsmeister

Bachelors’ Theses

When one wishes to inquire into the origin, or at least into the early forms of physical development, one turns to the early civilized nations for material and information. Knowledge of the early Egyptians, the Persians, and the Greeks comes to us through historians who deciphered the writings of these ancient peoples, so that we now know something about their lives and habits. The earliest forms of physical labor were those connected with hunting, tilling the soil, building homes, and warfare. As each of these developed, man also progressed in skill and became more and more proficient in the use …

Organization And Curriculum For Mentally Retarded Children, Alice M. Olwell

Bachelors’ Theses

The mentally retarded or exceptional child is one of the most puzzling personalities met with in our schools. He stands near the dividing line between normalcy and feeblemindedness, and his future happiness or tragic discouragement, and often ruin, depends upon the attitude of the school and the teachers towards his shortcomings during his childhood and adolescence. He may be trained to healthy competition in the field of labor with his normal brother, or he may reach adulthood an utter incompetent, a potential criminal, a moral degenerate, an unfortunate ne'er-do-well.

The Need Of A Working Text, Elizabeth L. Newman

Bachelors’ Theses

No doubt the idolatry of subject matter originated in those centuries v,hen there was no effective means for the dissemination of knowledge. The multitude could not possibly have access to the intellectual resources. These were stored up, in manuscripts. Of these there were at best a few; and it required long and toilsome preparation to be able to do anything with them. A high priesthood of learning, which guarded the treasury of truth and which doled it out to the masses under severe restrictions was the inevitable expression of these conditions.

A Study Of Supervision In North Dakota Schools Of From Ten To Twenty-Five Teachers, Clarence Ellithorpe

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Silent Reading In The Fourth And Fifth Grades, Margaret Neis

Bachelors’ Theses

Among the various subjects taught in the elementary schools reading is of the most fundamental importance. It is the basic tool through which history, geography, science, literature. and art are mastered. Indeed man's knowledge would be very meager it he followed the Socratic method of the early Greeks and taught only by word of mouth. The oratorical method used in ancient times has been supplanted by the printing press, the herald of a new civilization. Today man is controlled to a large degree by the printed word. Consequently if the interpretation of the printed word is faulty the approach to …

Teaching English In The Upper Grades, Berdice Josephine Moran

Bachelors’ Theses

In common with many of the lower animals man has the gregarious instinct. He is social by nature. Solitude is one of the conditions he fears. Man longs for the society of his fellows. A community of interests is the tie which binds the group together. The social instinct in man is manifested by his desire to communicate his thoughts to others. This Inclination has caused people of one nationality to settle in certain sections of a city or state. The use of a foreign language has kept alive in the heart of the immigrant, the love of his mother …

The Place Of Extra-Curricular Activities In The Junior High School, Borgia Rettler

Bachelors’ Theses

"Extra-Curricular Activities" is becoming a familiar phrase. It refers to "those legitimate activities which ·are not provided for in that part of the school program which is usually designated as the curriculum." (1) The phrase is apparently new, yet the activities it refers to · are, in elementary form, as old as our educational system itself. · The Friday afternoon exercises, the spell-downs, and athletics under various forms, are of long standing in American schools. Previous to the last ten or fifteen years, however, such activities were carried on in an unsystematic way and consequently had no definite plan of …

The Development Of Character Education, Evelyn M. Shaughnessy

Bachelors’ Theses

All down through the Christian years of Civilization the ultimate end of all education has been the production of men and women of character and high ideals. Then as the rush and commercialism of modern times swept upon us, this real end of education seemed to be overshadowed in the search for mere information.

Spelling In The Upper Grades, Anna Helen Tabert

Bachelors’ Theses

The English language because of its peculiar development from many sources, presents unusual spelling difficulties. The early and various contributions of the Angles, Saxons, Danes, Northmen, Normans, French, Celts, and Latins, are further confused by our continual practice of borrowing words from foreign languages. To alleviate these difficulties some attempts have been made at spelling reform.

The Platoon School As Modified In The Cass Street Rotary School, Anne E.M. Mccusker

Bachelors’ Theses

The aims of education are determined by the needs of society. In our first school, those of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the American colonists demanded that their children should have at least the rudiments of an education. The most important aim of instruction was to enable children to take their place in the community as God fearing, Bible reading citizens. After the Revolution came social and industrial development. The aims of education changed. The curriculum expanded. The twentieth century ushered in a great industrial and social age with new and peculiar problems. The school again expanded its curriculum …

Vocational Guidance Administration, Mary Elizabeth Keenan

Bachelors’ Theses

As listed in the United States Census of occupations and home making the term "vocational" comprises all gainful occupations. (1) In order properly to understand the administration of vocational guidance, a practical survey of section 11 of the Smith-Hughes Act, of 1917, is necessary as a background to the genesis of this movement which promises to form the major problems of our schools for an indefinite period.

Story Telling Helps To Develop Creative Powers In The Intellect Of The Child, Genevieve A. Roncke

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is primarily concerned with the development of creative powers in the intellect of the child. It would be well to determine exactly what is meant by "creative" as it will be treated here. To think of creation disentangled from change would be as futile as to connote man without soul. Change, then, is the distinguishing feature of creation, as soul is of man. Creative power is first manifested in creative thought, its colder, more hardy variety called reason.

Nutrition Of The Elementary School Child, Lucy I. Welch

Bachelors’ Theses

Realizing how this greatest of all national resources has been squandered, the people of today are aroused to the need of conservation of the race. They realize that the future of the country depends on the strength and vigor of the children of today. This realization, that the child must have a body, "as splendid as a king's castle -- with food that serves his needs, with play and rest and the habits which shall safeguard him through life," (2) is the chief reason for the development of the health and nutrition work.

Reading Outside Of School, Marion E. Daley

Bachelors’ Theses

Thomas, in "The Teaching of English in Secondary Schools" says, "When we English teachers consider the infinitely small amount of reading our pupils can do in school hours, in contrast with the infinitely large amount they can do outside of school~ and will do in the years that, in varying number, stretch far beyond their graduation days, when we realize the opportunities that we have in directing them to books that will fill their lives with a loftier ideal and open to them an ampler range of thought and emotion, we are indeed false to our trust if we do …

Trade Education For The Elementary School Graduate, Nettie Stewart Davis

Bachelors’ Theses

Trade Education for the Elementary School Graduate - An Educational Need Adequately met by The Milwaukee Girls' Trades and Technical High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Extra-Curricular Activities, Emma J. Dwyer

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Status Of Teacher Rating In Utah, Charles P. Mcgregor

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Any satisfactory amount of literature or information as to the condition of teacher rating in Utah is not available. The writer therefore has felt justified in making a search for such information.

Education is one of the biggest businesses of the state, a business with which nearly all are concerned. It is a business which calls for vast sums of money to finance its cause in buildings and equipment. A part of this equipment is the teacher, and a most vital part, for it rests largely upon the teacher to shape the livest of boys and girls into worthy citizens. …

Typical Methods Of Learning, Esther Zemke

Bachelors’ Theses

In discussing methods of learning at all, it may be well to define the word method. What is meant when one speaks of method? One dictionary definition is a mode of procedure, a manner, or way as a method of teaching. Dewey defines it in this way, "Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective for use." If this definition is used, a relationship between method and subject matter must be conceded, the one cannot be isolated from the other although the attempt is still being made in many schools of today. Some of the dangers …

Analysis Of New Mexico State School Laws, John Seyfried

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The analysis that follows does not purport to do what only a state-wide survey could properly do, that is, treat fully and minutely the New Mexico public school situation. The real intent is to occasion serious thought on the larger problems of the way for an expert state survey, preliminary to more constructive action. The extent that school problems may be treated herein is limited by the fact that only such time, effort, and other resources were at the writer’s disposal as are commonly available in the preparation of a thesis to be submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements …

Experimental And Observational Geometry, Albert D. Field

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Geometry has the distinction of being one of the oldest subjects given in the high-school.

Its subject-matter was formulated and organized by the Greeks into a fine system of thought before the time of Christ. Since leaving the hands of the Greeks, geometry has received only a few minor changes, and these largely in recent years.

Heretofore, the study of geometry has been made almost entirely dependent upon memory and reasoning. Geometricians have been slow in adopting the laboratory and observational methods.

This thesis has been written to encourage the student in his work of observing geometrical forms, and in …