This paper delineates conceptions of early childhood programs from the 18th through the 20th centuries, and reveals how the programs changed as the concept of what constitutes knowledge changed. Discussion begins with reading instruction and hornbooks in Colonial America, and national language learning in the knitting school of Jean Frederick…

Interviewed Frank Fletcher, a leader in establishing counseling as a profession, about his life and his work. His responses provide a personalized perspective of the profession and of the significant events that influenced his career development. (Author/KS)

McDonald contends that in the 1820s economic and technological changes were creating sectional differences in the United States while the political arena declined in influence. Genovese argues, however, that from the earliest days of the republic different ways of life in the north and south led to a sectional division changing the political…

Presents highlights of the National Association of College Admission Counselors' first 50 years. (ABB)

This educational history of economics education examines the development of the curriculum, problems encountered in the public schools, and failures and successes. (RM)

Explores the circumstances surrounding the creation of education schemes in the armies of the British Empire. Discusses attitudes toward war and toward the soldier's role in the early 1900s, attitudes of the soldiers toward war, the University of Vimy Ridge, the Canadian Khaki University, the Oatlands program, and education for the New Zealand…

Confronts the myth of mindless and irresponsible student participation in curriculum reform movements. Documents student involvement in the Harvard reform of general education. Shows that several student reports anticipated major aspects of the Redbook Plan for general education. Suggests that curricular reform make greater use of responsible…

So closely is learning interwoven with doing that to the Girl Scout herself all the scout activities are "just play." To the observant educator, the fundamentals of citizenship, good health, and community spirit are implanted through the natural ambition of the Girl Scout to strive for proficiency badges and scout honors. Subtler, but by no means…

This textbook is a first reader that focuses on moving children from spoken to written vocabulary and recognizing by sight words already familiar by sound. The combination of construction with interpretation, of writing with reading leads directly to intelligent understanding and expression of thoughts on the written or printed page. It is…

Sketches of four early deans in the student personnel field, Stanley Coulter, Mary Bidwell Breed, Gertrude S. Martin and Herbert E. Hawkes, are presented. (Author)

Traces the three-stage development of the general education curriculum in colleges and universities since 1914. Examines history instruction's role within general education at each stage and presents various proposals for revitalizing general education and history. (CAM)

Argues that two linked intellectual developments--the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns" and the evolution of the genius concept--played an important role in the rise of the modern intellectual. (Author/MP)

The paper considers some issues and events in the life of a music composer, and through review of the lives of 57 composers, attempts to discover constructive and destructive variables. (PHR)

The publications of Bonaro Overstreet and Harry Overstreet stressed the need for continuous lifespan learning and portrayed adult education as a mutual interrelationship between learner and educator. The Overstreets served as intermediaries between scholars and the public. (SK)

Discusses the origins of the University of Oregon's 20-year-old Center for Gerontology, focusing on the center's accomplishments. Discusses the center's current design, including both the continuities and the changes that have characterized its development. (Author/BH)