Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter n administration of directing study A New Point of View.--Supervised study has become a familiar term in recent discussions of highschool education. The literature of method is replete with contributions on the various phases of teaching pupils how to study. "Directing Activity," conceived as a means of developing a new general method, is the real title of this presentation. "Directing Study" is a compromise title that will serve to emphasize the fact that the effort here is to present a working basis for a more productive classroom procedure than that which usually obtains under the recitation system. Supervised study is too narrowly interpreted to serve this purpose. One of the most hopeful departures in these discussions is the evident tendency to formulate methods of teaching upon a study of the learningprocesses of children. The conventional emphasis has been upon the requirements of the logical organization of subjectmatter, irrespective of the subjective interests and experiences of the learner. Suggestive experiments have been made, the results of which are illuminating and have already begun to influence educational practice. As an example of the effect of this type of analysis and experimentation it is interesting to note the increasing disfavor in which the term recitation is held. Hearing lessons recited is coming to be considered stupid, mechanical, deadly x business. Home study, for the most part, is a myth in so far as those pupils who need it most are concerned. The practice of assigning lessons in a perfunctory manner with the expectation that somehow the lessons will be mastered is the corollary of the recitation system which has been perpetuated in the American school under the inertia of tradition. Supervised...
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