The psychological principles of education : A study in the science of education / by Herman Harrell Horne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horne, Herman Harrell, 1874-1946, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 435 pages)

Other Title:

psychological principles of education

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan co, 1906.

Summary:

"This volume attempts to lay scientific foundations for the art of teaching, so far as those foundations are concerned with psychology. Though the art of education is founded in all the sciences of man, probably no science has quite so much to contribute as psychology. The wonderful progress in all departments of psychology during recent years makes an outline map of consciousness now possible. The same progress makes educational applications in order. The author has attempted to be the middle man between the psychologist and the teacher, taking the theoretical descriptions of pure psychology and transforming them into educational principles for the teacher. The psychologist as such cannot be asked for practical applications, nor must the teacher be burdened with technical and unapplied psychology. The book will satisfy neither readers of pure psychology nor lovers of teaching devices; it seeks to satisfy teachers who love the principles of their art. The outline of the discussion is evident from a glance at the table of contents. In Part I we get our bearings in the field of the science of education. The remainder of the book sketches such a science from the standpoint of psychology"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

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