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The Creative Process: A Symposium, Charlotte B. Winsor

Books

A collection of papers encompassing an education conference about the creative process, in honor of Lucy Sprague Mitchell - founder of Bank Street College. The collection examines the creative process theoretically through psychodynamic and Piagetian viewpoints, as well as the effects of creativity on cognition and development. The works cover a large range of discussions on creativity and include an array of studio-workshop reports using music, food, needlework, and many more materials to stimulate creativity.

A Cooperative Day Care Experience, Lorraine Kaye

Graduate Student Independent Studies

In this thesis, the author touches on the problems of day care in New York City and the difficulties centers funded by the Agency for Child Development have encountered.

Learning Through Expressive And Representational Experiences In Social Studies : Eight-And-Nine-Year-Olds Study The Netsilik Eskimos, Joan Cenedella

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The following paper is the record of a study of the Netsilik Eskimos that took place in a group of twenty-five eight and nine-year-olds in 1973. Included in the paper are a description of the school, the classroom, and the children involved; a brief discussion of the overarching concepts inherent in the content of the study; a record of the ways in which the study was presented to children; and finally, a detailed description of the children's work. The point is made throughout the paper that the children learned through expressive experience in the study and that this expressive experience …

Humanizing Learning Through Open Classroom Procedures And Self Discovery Methods (A Personal View), Mamie Gumbs

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper explores humanized learning, the open classroom procedures and self-discovery methods.

Beginning An Open Classroom In A Public School: A Personal Experience, Donna C. Degaetani

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper describes the author's interest in the concept of open education. The author includes background information on the history of the open classroom program's inception and development.

A Descriptive Study Of An Approach To Teaching Reading In An Open Classroom, Helen Haratonik

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The following is a descriptive study of a reading program that was designed in Public School 3 in Greenwich Village.

Diary Of An Open Classroom, Alicia Montalvo

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This study describes the use of the open classroom method in a public school in Spanish Harlem.

Designing And Implementing Open Workshop Education At Bank Street College Of Education, Stanley Chu

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Bank Street College of Education needs to design and implement an expanded program of open workshop education. Increased input of staff, scheduled time, and equipment is necessary for this implementation.

Open workshop education offers help, time and facilities where a teacher can be involved with learning concepts using a combination of materials and skills. In addition, it can also function as an opportunity to continue and further develop ideas and skills initiated in other classes or from one's own school or classroom.

A Training Program For Non-Professional Headstart Teachers In Mississippi, Diane B. Trister

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This thesis covers the two year period in which the author served as Educational Director for a two county Headstart program in Mississippi. It describes the development of an original training program for non-professional teachers. The type of daily activi­ties program advocated and evolved is implicit in all the training procedures.

The first chapter briefly outlines the structure of the agency as background information. A description of the children and teachers follows. The rest of the paper is concerned with the problems encountered in setting up a daily program based on principles of child development and how they were solved …

An Examination Of The Writings Of Margaret Wise Brown With Special Reference To Uses Of Fantasy And Reality, Virginia Schonborg

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Here, in this section, where we shall examine the idea of fantasy in relation to the particular way that Margaret Wise Brown employed it in her writing, these five lines from "The Dream Book" epitomize her point of view. Unlike many writers of the sensory perception school, she does not present only the recording of "plink, plink, the water in the sink." Her own particular view sees the world as it is; is almost in love with it. Yet she seems to see the world with a sensitivity to the magic in it, as we shall see further on discussing …

The Bank Street Threes And Their World, Lois Owen

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This is a study of a group of seventeen three year olds at the Bank Street School for Children, 69 Bank Street, New York City in which I was a student teacher for five months. My purpose is to, first, state some philosophical positions of my own concerning preschoolers and preschool education. On these bases I proceed to an investigation of the school as an institution, a discussion of the parents, the children, and the curriculum for the group. I attempt to analyze the suitability of the curriculum to the needs of the children, and to evaluate the expectations of …

Curriculum In The Education Of The Deviate Child, Florence Beaman

69 Bank Street

Volume 2 Number 4, January, 1936

Illustrates the function of a program for "unadjusted" children in a special class established at The Little Red School House, New York City.

Program For Seven-Year-Olds: In A Suburban School, In A City School; New Books For Children, Evelyn Beyer, Lorna C. Reed, Jessie Stanton, Ellen W. Steele

69 Bank Street

Volume 2 Number 3, December, 1935

School life and activities for seven-year-olds in the suburbs and the city.

Also includes publications relevant to children between six and ten years old obtainable at 69 Bank Street.

Extending The Environment: Before The Trip And After; The Trip; Eight Days, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, Elsa Euland

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1935

Detailed description of Bank Street's "Long Trip" to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. in 1935.

"The trip to West Virginia and Washington in which is described in this issue of 69 Bank Street, first by a student teacher and then by a staff member, was part of our year's work with the student teachers on "environment" - part of an attempt to get in first-hand contact with some of the major work patterns and their accompanying psychological patterns which characterize our current American culture" -- Lucy Sprague Mitchell

A Summer Program For Five Year Olds, Jessie Stanton

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1935

"The Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College runs a summer session of six weeks for parents and children. In this number Jessie Stanton, a director of the Harriet Johnson Nursery School, 69 Bank Street, New York, describes her work with five- and six-year-old children in the Institute School for Little Children."

The Contribution Of Adolescents To The Literature Of Escape, Mildred Gignoux Finke

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 6, March 1935

"Presents the writing of adolescents in terms of the emotional release which it has afforded children."

The Taking And Use Of Records, Louise P. Woodcock

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 5, February, 1935

Describes the record taking process and the types of observational records the teachers at the Harriet Johnson Nursery School were taking. Includes excerpts of observations.

Play Making In The School Group; The Use Of Pantomime In Developing Acting Techniques, Ellen W. Steele, Charlotte Perry

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 4, January 1935

"Play making in the school group" describes the kind of play that grows through the school experience (in this case, a field trip) and takes form in the school life."

"The use of pantomime in developing acting techniques" describes the teacher's first steps in guiding young children beyond pretend play toward dramatic form through the use of pantomime."

The Modern Teacher: From The Unpublished Writings Of Harriet M. Johnson, Harriet M. Johnson

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 2, November 1934

Harriet Johnson's brief papers focusing on the central theme of what kind of person a child needs for a teacher.