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Download full textProffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
It is generally recognized that knowledge of occupational life is an essential objective of public education. This is based upon the assumption that the normal expectancy for every child is that he will live surrounded by an occupational world and that he himself will follow an occupation for a living. How best to provide adequate instruction in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Career Education, Career Awareness, Occupational Information
PDF pending restorationBrown, Kenneth E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954
The purpose of this study is to help persons who are faced with the task of improving or developing curriculum materials in mathematics and also those persons who frequently rethink the objectives for the teaching of mathematics. In this study 135 courses of study or curriculum guides in mathematics are analyzed and a comparison is made with a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Eddy, Helen M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The handling of this survey was intrusted to Dr. Leonard V. Koos, of the University of Chicago. With great skill he has, working on a full-time basis during his free quarters from the University of Chicago and part time during other quarters, brought it to a conclusion. This manuscript was prepared by Helen M. Eddy, associate professor of romance…
Descriptors: Educational History, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Questionnaires
Pierce, Anne E.; Hilpert, Robert S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This is a study in the two fields of the fine arts which have largely found their way into the curriculum of the secondary schools during the past 30 years. Anne E. Pierce, associate in music at the University of Iowa, made the study of music. Robert S. Elbert, assistant professor of art education, University of Minnesota, made the study of art…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
Home economics education during the past biennium has made notable progress in a number of directions. These directions include, among others, a clarification of the contributions of home economics to general education, to health education, to child care and welfare, and a reorganization of the curriculum, based on scientific evidence. This latter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Occupational Home Economics
