Curriculum Construction

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Macmillan, 1923 - Education - 352 pages
 

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Page 256 - TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son. — Aloft in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound ; So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by his side, Sat like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Page 253 - ... own, it must be the genuine feeling of every gentleman who hears me, that all the superior classes of the female sex of England must be more capable of exercising the elective suffrage with deliberation and propriety, than the uninformed individuals of the lowest class of men to whom the advocates of universal suffrage would extend it.
Page 81 - The curriculum of the directed training is to be discovered in the shortcomings of individuals after they have had all that can be given by the undirected training.
Page 284 - Every point in the bisector of an angle is equidistant from the sides of the angle. o Hyp. Z DAB = Z DAC and 0 is any point in AD. To prove 0 is equidistant from AB and AC. Draw OP _L AB and OP" ± AC, and prove the equality of the two triangles.
Page 171 - to find out whether or not there exists a fairly definite body of words so generally used in ordinary correspondence that they should form the core or basis of the spelling vocabulary taught in the lower grades of our elementary schools.
Page 102 - First, determine the major objectives of education by a study of the life of man in its social setting. Second, analyze these objectives into ideals and activities and continue the analysis to the level of working units.
Page vii - The school curriculum is the latest great social agency to feel the effect of the theory of evolution. Biology for sixty years has recognized the fact that living structure is modified to serve the functions of plants and animals. Sociology, economics, and history accept the fact that the forms of institutions are determined by the attempts of man to make his environment minister to his needs. While all these revolutionary changes have been under way, the theory of the formation of the curriculum...
Page 236 - In this one vocation of department-store selling the chances are nine out of ten that no problem in addition will be more complicated than the addition of four four-place addends; no subtraction is used in making change, and if it were, only forty-five out of one hundred subtraction facts would be used; the chances are ninety-seven out of one hundred that in multiplication the multiplier will be 12 or less and the multiplicand three places or less; in fractions only eleven denominators are found,...
Page 300 - This study was undertaken to determine what problems and processes would be involved in a manual arts course, based upon work which is done or may be done around the home by a handy man with a common carpenter's and painter's tools. The problems of investigation were: first, to discover the jobs; second, to list and classify them; and third, to determine what processes were involved.
Page 26 - Fifth, determine the number of the most important items of the resulting list which can be handled in the time allotted to school education, after deducting those which are better learned outside of school.

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