Education : : Intellectual, Moral, Physical / / ed. by Helen Huus.

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 Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editor’s Preface
  • Contents
  • I. The Issues in Education
  • American Education in a World of Confusion
  • Quality of Opportunity
  • Mew Confidence in Education
  • Who Is Educated?
  • The Quest for Quality—Challenge of the 1960’s
  • II. Factors Affecting Education
  • Social and Technological Change As Affecting Education
  • Church and State in Relation to Education
  • Trends in National and State Legislation
  • Cultural Pressures on Parenthood
  • III. Comparative Education
  • Emerging Basic Problems—Dependence to Independence in Africa
  • Potential for Leadership in Africa Today
  • Social Influences Affecting Education in Chile
  • Educational Reorganization in Greece
  • IV. Elementary Education
  • Effective Practices in the Kindergarten
  • Current Emphases in the Teaching of Reading
  • New Books for Children
  • Foreign Languages on Television
  • V. Secondary Education
  • Developmental Reading in Grades Seven and Eight: The State Mandated Program After One Tear
  • Conformity Through Diversity
  • The Secondary School Curriculum—Its Prospects
  • Teaching Secondary Courses
  • Self-Correcting Homework in English
  • Selective Service—Current Policies and Practices
  • VI. The Teacher
  • The Teacher’s “Spirit”
  • VII. Schoolmen’s Week Committees 1960
  • Appendix
  • Index