Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education

PART I
THE PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION
Chapter I	page
Nature and Purpose of Education	1
Conditions of Growth and Development	2
Worth in Human Life	4
Factors in Social Efficiency	6
Chapter II
Forms of Reaction	9
Instinctive Reaction	9
Habitual Reaction	10
Conscious Reaction	11
Factors in process	12
Experience	13
Relative value of experiences	15
Influence of Conscious Reaction	17
Chapter III
Process of Education	19
Conscious Adjustment	19
Education as Adjustment	19
Education as Control of Adjustment	22
Requirements of the Instructor	24
Chapter IV
The School Curriculum	25
Purposes of Curriculum	25
Dangers in Use of Curriculum	28
Chapter V
Educational Institutions	34
The School	34
Other Educative Agents	35
The church	35
The home	36
The vocation	36
Other institutions	36
Chapter VI
The Purpose of the School	38
Civic Views	38
Individualistic Views	40
The Eclectic View	43
Chapter VII
Divisions of Educational Study	46
Control of Experience	46
The Instructor's Problems	48
General method	49
Special methods	49
School management	50
History of education	50
PART II
METHODOLOGY
Chapter VIII
General Method	52
Subdivisions of Method	52
Method and Mind	53
Chapter IX
The Lesson Problem	55
Nature of Problem	55
Need of Problem	57
Pupil's Motive	59
Awakening Interest	61
Knowledge of Problem	67
How to Set Problem	69
Examples of Motivation	71
Chapter X
Learning as a Selecting Activity	75
The Selecting Process	77
Law of Preparation	82
Value of preparation	83
Precautions	84
Necessity of preparation	85
Examples of preparation	86
Chapter XI
Learning as a Relating Activity	89
Nature of Synthesis	90
Interaction of Processes	91
Knowledge unified	94
Chapter XII
Application of Knowledge	95
Types of Action	96
Nature of Expression	97
Types of Expression	99
Value of Expression	100
Dangers of Omitting	102
Expression and Impression	103
Chapter XIII
Forms of Lesson Presentation	106
The Lecture Method	106
The Text-book Method	109
Uses of text-book	111
Abuse of text-book	113
The Developing Method	113
The Objective Method	116
The Illustrative Method	118
Precautions	119
Modes of Presentation Compared	121
Chapter XIV
Classification of Knowledge	122
Acquisition of Particular Knowledge	122
Through senses	122
Through imagination	122
By deduction	123
Acquisition of General Knowledge	124
By conception	124
By induction	125
Applied knowledge general	126
Processes of Acquiring Knowledge Similar	127
Chapter XV
Modes of Learning	129
Development of Particular Knowledge	129
Learning through senses	129
Learning through imagination	131
Learning by deduction	133
Examples for study	137
Development of General Knowledge	139
The conceptual lesson	139
The inductive lesson	140
The formal steps	141
Conception as learning process	143
Induction as learning process	144
Further examples	145
The inductive-deductive lesson	148
Chapter XVI
The Lesson Unit	150
Whole to Parts	151
Parts to Whole	154
Precautions	155
Chapter XVII
Lesson Types	156
The Study Lesson	157
The Recitation Lesson	160
Conducting recitation lesson	161
The Drill Lesson	162
The Review Lesson	165
The topical review	166
The comparative review	169
Chapter XVIII
Questioning	171
Qualifications of Good Questioner	171
Purposes of Questioning	173
Socratic Questioning	174
The Question	177
The Answer	179
Limitations	181
PART III
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter XIX
Consciousness	183
Value of Educational Psychology	186
Limitations	186
Methods of Psychology	187
Phases of Consciousness	189
Chapter XX
Mind and Body	192
The Nervous System	192
The Cortex	198
Reflex Acts	199
Characteristics of Nervous Matter	202
Chapter XXI
Instinct	207
Human Instincts	209
Curiosity	214
Imitation	217
Play	221
Play in education	223
Chapter XXII
Habit	226
Formation of Habits	230
Value of Habits	231
Improvement of Habits	234
Chapter XXIII
Attention	237
Attention Selective	240
Involuntary Attention	243
Non-voluntary Attention	245
Voluntary Attention	246
Attention in Education	251
Chapter XXIV
The Feeling of Interest	257
Classes of Feelings	Clyx.com

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