Report of the Work of the Department of Pedagogy for the Present Year, with Suggestions for the Improvement of the Same.
In addition to the three regular courses, and the special course outlined in the catalogue for 1896-7, this department now includes a graduate course of advanced instruction in the science and art of education, and a larger amount of work in the practice school than is offered in the undergraduate courses. Those taking this course meet in one class for about two hours one night in each week for lectures and discussion of books read. They also meet in sections, eachsection meeting for about one hour and a quarter one afternoon each week, for detailed discussion of special subjects taught in the elementary schools.
The books read and discussed in the night meetings have been Lange’s Apperception,Dorpfeld’s Thought and Memory, Davis’s Elements of Inductive Logic, Joseph Payne’s Lectures on Education, Spencer’s Essays on Education, DeGuimp’s Life and Works of Pestalozzi, and Froebel’s Education of Man, McMurry’s Method of the Recitationwill be read before the close of the session. In the afternoon meetings one of the sections has [rest of the transcript missing]
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Report of the Work of the Department of Pedagogy for the Present Year, with Suggestions for the Improvement of the Same.
In addition to the three regular courses, and the special course outlined in the catalogue for 1896-7, this department now includes a graduate course of advanced instruction in the science and art of education, and a larger amount of work in the practice school than is offered in the undergraduate courses. Those taking this course meet in one class for about two hours one night in each week for lectures and discussion of books read. They also meet in sections, eachsection meeting for about one hour and a quarter one afternoon each week, for detailed discussion of special subjects taught in the elementary schools.
The books read and discussed in the night meetings have been Lange’s Apperception,Dorpfeld’s Thought and Memory, Davis’s Elements of Inductive Logic, Joseph Payne’s Lectures on Education, Spencer’s Essays on Education, DeGuimp’s Life and Works of Pestalozzi, and Froebel’s Education of Man, McMurry’s Method of the Recitationwill be read before the close of the session. In the afternoon meetings one of the sections has [rest of the transcript missing]
