Industrial Arts in Our Elementary Schools (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Industrial Arts in Our Elementary Schools (Classic Reprint) written by Alanson Harrison Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Industrial Arts in Our Elementary Schools Americans should be proud of our democratic claim that free education is provided in each public rural and urban school in the United States. However, our taith in this boast cannot carry much conviction, either with ourselves or with others, unless the elementary schools are seriously concerned with those human activities that contribute most in preparing for the many-sided demands which confront all intelligent consumers and worthy citizens. If our elementary industrial arts courses are to continue to occupy an important place in the program for elementary education, they must soon be subjected to the same general tests and judged by the same high standards that apply to the other elementary school subjects. The relative possibilities in the different plans for realizing common objectives also must be determined more scientifically than heretofore. These brief reports dealing with the various units of elementary industrial arts work and study, which were successfully organized and conducted by Miss Hunter and the several other teachers named in connection with their respective contributions, were collected for the 1921 Yearbook by the Industrial Arts Committee of the National Society for the study of Education. Since it did not prove expedient for the Society to publish Part III of its 1921 Yearbook, which was to have included these suggestive reports, it has been recommended and urged that this carefully planned and tried material on promising experiments for developing industrial courses and projects to meet the psychological This committee was composed oiL. A. Herr, G.H. Hargitt and A.H. Edgerton, chairman. and social needs of elementary school pupils should be revised for publication as a handbook for teachers of industrial arts in elementary schools. In order that all concerned might derive the most help from these valuable units and projects, it finally has been decided to present them in connection with the findings and implications resulting from this investigation of 141 public school systems. The educational needs of today seem to call for instruction which aims(1) to develop the pupils general and special capacities and(2) to prepare him for the demands which the future is going to make upon him. But it is obvious that the early conception of the rudiments of elementary education, involving some skill in reading, writing, and arithmetic, altho still important, will not begin to suffice either in aiding pupils who continue their school work to choose their courses more wisely in secondary education, or in helping those who might find it advisable or necessary to leave school with a minimum amount of education to choose their respective procedure more thotfully. While it has long since been agreed that, if possible, children should be sufficiently well prepared in school so that they may exercise intelligent judgment in weighing values and in choosing their future courses of study and work, the traditional curriculum has quite frequently failed to furnish those concrete experiences and reliable facts pertaining to the social, the economic, and the larger personal aspects of our most important life occupations, all of which could help to make this possibility a reality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com