Education : Intellectual, Moral, Physical / Helen Huus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huus, Helen, editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Congresses.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1961]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Preface

Contents

I. The Issues in Education

American Education in a World of Confusion / Cartwright, William H.

Quality of Opportunity / Fischer, John H.

Mew Confidence in Education / Stiles, Lindley J.

Who Is Educated? / Nash, Jay B.

The Quest for Quality-Challenge of the 1960's / Walsh, John P.

II. Factors Affecting Education

Social and Technological Change As Affecting Education / Edwards, Newton

Church and State in Relation to Education / Edwards, Newton

Trends in National and State Legislation / Lumley, John M.

Cultural Pressures on Parenthood / Pollak, Otto

III. Comparative Education

Emerging Basic Problems-Dependence to Independence in Africa / Williams, Douglas

Potential for Leadership in Africa Today / Sloan, Ruth

Social Influences Affecting Education in Chile / Burns, Hobert W.

Educational Reorganization in Greece / Jones, Walter B.

IV. Elementary Education

Effective Practices in the Kindergarten / Thompson, Ethel

Current Emphases in the Teaching of Reading / Austin, Mary C.

New Books for Children / Reiff, Julie W. / Witte, Margaret / Armstrong, Helen

Foreign Languages on Television / Jeanne, Sister Miriam

V. Secondary Education

Developmental Reading in Grades Seven and Eight: The State Mandated Program After One Tear / Ellis, Berkeley U. / Rhoades, Walter M. / Kuner, Yita B.

Conformity Through Diversity / Edman, Marion

The Secondary School Curriculum-Its Prospects / Cartwright, William H.

Teaching Secondary Courses / Custin, Mildred / Bock, Carolyn E. / Langeland, William E. / Gruber, Joseph / Cooper, William L.

Self-Correcting Homework in English / Diederich, Paul B.

Selective Service-Current Policies and Practices / Perry, Warren B.

VI. The Teacher

The Teacher's "Spirit" / Hay, Margaret

VII. Schoolmen's Week Committees 1960

Appendix

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

1-5128-1706-6

OCLC:

1024025657