Author: Walter Sargent
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Walter Sargent
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Walter Sargent
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503179431
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Languages : en
Pages : 138

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An excerpt from the beginning of: CHAPTER I. EDUCATIONAL AND PRACTICAL VALUES OF THE FINE AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS Since 1870 drawing, constructive work, and design as common-school studies have been subjects of general discussion. The Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 exerted a strong influence in favor of public education in the industrial and fine arts. The educational exhibitions were a revelation to the American people of the possibilities along these lines, and of their own shortcomings. Since then drawing, constructive work, and design have received steadily increasing recognition in elementary education so far as provision for instruction and equipment has been concerned. Until recently, however, these subjects have been left largely in the hands of specialists. Boards of education, superintendents, and principals have often hesitated to make suggestions because they felt that they had not received the sort of training which would fit them to judge methods and results in these subjects. This feeling has been re-enforced by the influence of the tradition that even ordinary ability in the arts comes more as the result of intuitive appreciation than of well-directed effort. The present wide acceptance of the manual arts as an important part of general education is rapidly removing them from the class of special subjects, and both educators and the general public are now taking an active interest in them. The educator recognizes that the manual arts constitute a unique type of analysis of the objective world. Each science deals with material from a particular standpoint, and each different kind of analysis adds greater significance and wider range to experience. The contribution which the manual arts make toward a more comprehensive basis for mental activity is to a great degree inaccessible by other methods of approach. He finds in the manual arts a line of activity the results of which are concrete and furnish a visible record of good or poor work, which the child interprets into rational terms of cause and effect more easily than is possible in the case of subjects which deal mainly with language. He sees in them an opportunity for obtaining experience with concrete material and with some of the processes by which it is shaped to human needs. He uses the arts as a method of developing and mastering certain ideas by working them out in visible products, so that materials become a means of expressing and of stimulating thought. He finds also that these arts sometimes furnish a point of contact with the interests of many children who apparently are not reached by more formal studies, and that these interests when once awakened are likely to extend to other lines of school work. The general public more frequently expresses its convictions in terms of the advantages resulting in later life from the training in manual arts which was received in school, or the disadvantages experienced from the lack of such training....

Author: Walter Sargent
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ISBN: 9781331213062
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Excerpt from Fine and Industrial Arts, in Elementary Schools During the past few years the amount of new subject matter relating to the fine and industrial arts in elementary schools has rapidly increased. The organization of this material into a form involving definite progression and reasonable standards of attainment at various stages has not wholly kept pace with its introduction. The considerations here presented regarding a scheme for such organization have taken shape in the course of numerous conferences with those interested in the subject, and as a result of investigations which were suggested by these discussions. I wish to make acknowledgment of my immediate indebtedness in this endeavor to Professor Charles Hubbard Judd of The University of Chicago, who urged the importance of some attempt to present a survey of the subject. I am under obligation also to Professor Frank M. Leavitt of The University of Chicago, Mr. James Hall, formerly of the Ethical Culture School of New York City, Mr. Charles F. Whitney of the Normal School of Salem, Massachusetts, Mr. Fred H. Dauiels of Newton, Massachusetts, and Mr. John C. Brodhead of Boston, for valuable suggestions; and to Miss Helen E. Cleaves, Miss Lucy D. Taylor, and Miss Amy Rachel Whittier for their help in carrying on observations for two years in the public schools of Boston. I also take this occasion to recognize a debt of long standing to Mr. Henry Turner Bailey, editor of the School Arts Book, who first directed my attention to the educational importance of the arts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Frederick Gordon Bonser
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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This book begins with an exposition of principles for the organization and teaching of industrial arts in elementary schools, and continues with examples of how these principles are applied, with lesson suggestions and objectives. Some activities are constructive, some are investigative, and some are appreciative, but all involve participation. All exercises are a means of awakening intellectual inquiry, giving meaning and values, cultivating appreciations, and leading to further interests. Aided by observation, experimentation, and reading, children should not only acquire useful information, but develop their ability to see projects to a successful conclusion, while seeing tangible results for their efforts. Designed for teachers, the lessons are adaptable to many types of school settings.

Author: Wilbur R. Miller
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Alanson Harrison Edgerton
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: United States. Office of Education. Committee on Industrial Arts
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Saint Cloud (Minn.). Board of Education
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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