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Vital Phases Of The Project Method Of Teaching, Irene Horlivy

Bachelors’ Theses

The dissatisfaction of educators with the teaching of isolated facts have expressed itself in the recent development of the Project Method. Everywhere the endeavor to organize education on this practical, pedagogical basis, is meeting with most enthusiastic support.

Pre Vocational Education With Special Reference To Pre Vocational Education For Girls, Ruth Hurlbut

Bachelors’ Theses

The necessity for providing vocational information and experience for children who are likely to leave school before completing the high-school course and thus face at a very early age the demands of industrial and commercial life, is coming to be generally recognized. It has been evident for many years the the public school has been giving more effective service to the boy and girl who continue through college and into the professions than it does to the one who must step directly into the job without further training - and this in the face of the fact the the latter …

The Education Of The Accelerated Child, Robert Marber Francis Derse

Bachelors’ Theses

Nature has bestowed upon some of its children a gift so mysterious in its operations, so wonderful in its products and so tremendous in its influence that it baffles the most cultured and powerful minds in the attempt to analyze its workings. Even the possessor is unable to trace either -its origin or its mode of action. It is the common parent of invention and science of music and poetry and its chief distinction lies in the ability to penetrate farther into the field of truth than ordinary minds can do. To live in worlds that are unknown except to …

Social Service In The Public Schools, Elizabeth R. Witt

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation opens with an argument in favor of Social Service in the public schools. The second part discusses the manner by which Social Service came into the schools.

The Teaching Sisterhoods In The United States, Mary Esther Minch

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Of Principal And Teacher. A Study Of Some Ways Of Improving Teachers In Service, Lillian Caryl Thies

Bachelors’ Theses

The title of this thesis is, ''The Relationship Between Principal and Teacher". Such a title may cover a great field, and instead of a single thesis, volumes might be written adequately to review it. I must therefore narrow the subject down, and after giving a general view of the position of the elementary school principal in the educational field and a sketch of his various powers and duties, I shall consider in more detail some ways in which he may help the elementary teacher to grow and to improve in service. There is gathering upon the subject, "The Principalship", a …

The Project Idea, Margaret Cleary

Bachelors’ Theses

We are constantly changing our ideas in education. If we do not change them entirely, we vary them and give them a new name. Before we let the pendulum swing to the new we should examine the new rather closely from many angles. Perhaps the new is only the old in a new dress. It may look alluring but offer no more than we now have. It may not be based on sound psychology or sound pedagogy. The desire at present seems to be for more freedom in our schools and less of the ready-made education—more activity on the part …

School : A Selective Agent In Scoiety, Guido Eric Gauckler

Bachelors’ Theses

Our schools are not essentially for creating intelligence. They are more in the manner of a selective agency. The school selects those that are capable. Thus the educational system does not create capacity, it merely or largely selects men of capacity, and chooses those for a higher educational preferment who are adapted to its character. In this respect the school is a selective agent, acting in the manner of a huge sifting machine.

Chinese Secondary Education, Pao H. Mao

Graduate Thesis Collection

It is not easy to define the limits of secondary education. Each person has periods in which he can receive education. The middle period of this time can be called the period for secondary education. Looking at it from the stand-point of society, the government has established a school system for the education of its people which can be called secondary education. With the individual the maximum period of receiving education is from six to twenty-four years of age. The period from twelve to eighteen is the suitable period to term the central part or the period of secondary education. …

High School Enrollment And Costs, Ellen K. Ocker

Graduate Thesis Collection

During the last half century, there have been many surveys of city school systems. These surveys have been general; they have compared an entire school system with another of similar size. This thesis is also a compartive study of a school system but it compares the costs and enrollment in the four high schools of a single city. The aim of this thesis is then, (1) to compare the enrollment and costs of a single subject in the four high schools and (2) to compare the enrollment and costs of the various subjects in one school.

The Teaching Of English In The Elementary Schools, Julia Agnes Regan

Bachelors’ Theses

From one point of view the significance of the development of modern education can best be estimated by the progress of the mother-tongue toward the central place in formal instruction. When the study of the mother-tongue and its literature is made the core of the curriculum, education is something quite different from that training in which a foreign, perhaps an ancient tongue holds the chief place. We have been told by one school of critics that the mother-tongue need not be taught, for it will be picked up somehow; by another, that it cannot be taught, for there is nothing …

Habit And Will In The Life Of The Child, Minerva Grace Kemink

Bachelors’ Theses

The forming of habit and the molding of character are the chief tasks of the character builder. In childhood the trainer makes character to a large degree; during adolescence the youth makes himself. In childhood habits are formed by the unreasoned processes of reiteration; during youth they are made by the voluntary acceptance of an inner-urge, and the conscious nurture of that urge. For the child habit-making must be as unconscious as breathing; for the youth it should be his deliberate and high-born duty. A wise person will never talk habits to children; but before they know it she will …

Some Phases Of Silent Reading, Katherine Moran

Bachelors’ Theses

Everywhere and at all times we are confronted with the necessity for reading and for making use of what we read. We do occasionally find ourselves doing some oral reading but that need arises very seldom. The business man reads his newspaper on his way to work. If he is a slow reader he must be satisfied with glancing over the headlines in the brief time allotted to him but if he can read rapidly he can do much more. When he is reading his morning mail he can save time if he is sure that he is not missing …

The Gift Of Teaching, Anthony C. Katze-Miller

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the object of the present Thesis, first, to prove the reality of the Gift of Teaching; to analyze it, or to determine the elements of which it is composed, and thirdly, to show how it may be cultivated and improved, or even acquired, where it is naturally wanting.

Oral English In The Elementary School, Pauline Ehbets

Bachelors’ Theses

Since oral English is natural and necessary to the child, it was long thought that instruction in the mother tongue was unnecessary. The establishment of the High Schools in 1876 made definite demands in literary expression upon the elementary schools. Today there is a growing conviction that it is a basic part of every branch of the curriculum, and that it should be a separate study only for definite techni­cal demands...

Learning To Read -- Reading To Learn, Walter Summers Nichols

Bachelors’ Theses

The following thesis is a resume of notes, experiments, and readings carried on while teaching reading in the various grades of the elementary schools of Milwaukee. For the sake of convenience I have arranged this thesis in three parts:

• Part One ... Objectives
• Part Two ... Oral Reading
• Part Three ... Silent Reading

Rural Education In India, Lalit K. Shah

Graduate Thesis Collection

The following study is a historical survey of Indian education, a review of present day conditions, and a discussion of the future of Rural Education in India.

A Study Of The Reading Habits Of Adults, Burton K. Farnsworth

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

For several years past, some of the best students of americancolleges have been graduating with a major in English; and have gone forth full of hope and enthusiasm to perfect the oral and written expression of Young America, and to implant in them a taste for, and an appreciation of, worthwhile literature. While there can be no doubt that the training of teachers has steadily improved, and the time allotted to the study of English has constantly increased; yet critics say, and people generally believe them, that young America is still untaught. These critics declare that altho our boys and …

Borrowing Vs. Cash Payments As A Means Of Financing New School Buildings In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Francis J. Hart

Bachelors’ Theses

In ancient times it appears to have been the practice, during times of peace, to make provision for the necessities of war--hoarding up treasures before hand to be used in conquest or defense a the occasion demanded. It was not then the custom to trust to extraordinary impositions of taxes to meet extraordinary demands, much less to borrowing the necessary funds.

The Curriculum And The Individual, Mary Tomelty

Bachelors’ Theses

Modern ideals require that all shall be educated. In the first place this education must be serviceable to the individual from a cultural, social, and practical viewpoint. Today compulsory education is the rule in all civilized countries. But even with this, the school must make an appeal which is sufficiently interesting and worth while to keep the children in school. Among the means to accomplish this end is a better curriculum or course of study. Interest and more effective effort in school may thus be secured. The modern school must take "ail the children of all the people" and do …

Origin And Development Of The Jesuit School, Mary Booz

Bachelors’ Theses

The Council of Trent 1545-1563 and ecumenical or general council restored the ancient discipline for the training of clergy. The rise of European universities caused buses to creep in and it was necessary to issue a decree that a seminary for the instruction and preparation of religious students be established in every diocese.

An Account Of Experiments In Teaching Reading Devised And Directed, Harry B. Wilson

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of the experiments was threefold; first, that teachers might have an opportunity to discover the actual conditions in their own class rooms in comparison with statements of writers on education; second, that, in trying out recommended procedures, they might acquire a desire to investigate and develop a scientific attitude toward their work; third, that a more wholesome respect for the opinions of scientific investigators might obtain. The subject of reading is of such fundamental importance and has occupied so prominent a place in the field of investigation that it seemed reasonable to treat it in discussions in teachers' …

Silent Reading, Nano Armstrong

Bachelors’ Theses

There are two distinct types of reading, oral reading and silent reading, and each type calls for a different ability on the part of the child. Therefore, it is very important that we recognize at the outset these two different abilities. Both kinds of reading are now taught, but by far the greater part of our time and attention is devoted to oral reading. When we consider that after leaving school most of our reading, in fact practically all of it , is of the silent reading type, it is easy to understand that there is error in this arrangement.

Essentials In Voice Training, Nancy E. Canan

Bachelors’ Theses

The Voice is the greatest instrument that there is in existence It has the power to make more tones varying in quality than any instrument made by man. It is the most beautiful of instruments, in that each voice has its own peculiar beauty. But botwithstanding [sic] all this, this beautiful instrument is treated with less care than those made ny man. How many people learn to take care of the voice just because it is a beautiful instrument? People buy musical instruments and treat them with great care when they know that they can replace them if necessary, but …

The Administration Of Rural Schools In North Dakota, Edward Erickson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Industrial And Vocational Education In Massachusetts, Chimaki Kageyama

Historical Dissertations & Theses

No abstract provided.

The Model School As An Educational Factor, John Henry Purnell

Historical Dissertations & Theses

The term "model" school has two meanings. One is that which relates to an elementary school, sometimes a secondary school, connected more or less intimately with the professional work of a normal school, or training school for teachers. The other refers to a school which presumes to show the efficiency of certain educational theories and to increase the efficiency of the schools of the state, nation or empire by setting an example. This study has been mainly from the point of view of one interested in setting an example for other schools; but some of the schools connected with institutions …

The Public School Teacher In Massachusetts, George Allen Coe

Historical Dissertations & Theses

This study has been undertaken for the purpose of securing an idea of some of the more important professional conditions and tendencies observable in the teaching body as found in the public schools of Massachusetts. The last sections present in addition to conclusions that have been reached directly or indirectly as a result of the findings herein presented a few suggestions as to what needs to be done for and by the teachers, at least in the humble opinion of the writer.

The Child's Bible, Leonidas Latimer Loofbourow

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Every lover of scripture takes a Bible for himself within our larger one. He may read the 60 books from a sense of duty or profit, but there are portions that he loves, which he reads time and again. Those are the Bible within the Bible that he has made for himself. Any Bible used long and effectively by one person has this story to tell. Torn edges, pencillngs, thumbmarks plentiful here, and large sections of clean pages there show what the owner may never have dreamed, that he has his personal edition of our common Bible. This is inevitable. …

Industrial Education In Massachusetts, Thomas Francis Sullivan

Historical Dissertations & Theses

A study of the history of industrial education in Massachusetts is instructive and of peculiar interest for several reasons. It was the first state to scientifically investigate industrial education, and to pass laws as committing the state to actively engage in the establishment of industrial schools. It has had a more varied history in the administration and control of this form of education than any other state, and exceeds all other states, with the possible exception of New York (in 1911), in the number of and the variety of types of industrial schools.