GOOD BOOKS FOR TEACHERS

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EVERYDAY PEDAGOGY

By Lillian I. Lincoln, State Normal School, Farmington, Maine. 310 pages

Definite and practical suggestions from a teacher of wide experience. The book treats each of the regular common-school subjects in a separate chapter. It includes chapters on discipline, conducting the recitation, and similar general topics.

WHAT IS EDUCATION?

By Ernest Carroll Moore, Harvard University. 357 pages

What is Knowledge? The Doctrine of General Discipline, Education as World Building, The Kinds of Education, The Place of Method in Education, and other essays on the underlying philosophy of teaching by an experienced educator.

THE DRAMATIC METHOD OF TEACHING

By Harriet Finlay-Johnson. 199 pages, illustrated

The fascinating story of what the author accomplished as head mistress of a unique school on the Sussex Downs of England. She applied dramatic methods of teaching to every subject in the school curriculum, with surprising results.

THE NORMAL CHILD AND PRIMARY EDUCATION

By Arnold L. Gesell, Yale University, and Beatrice Chandler Gesell. 342 pages, illustrated

A fresh, comprehensive, nontechnical study of the child. Introductory chapters present in a readable way the biological and genetic background, and later chapters make concrete, practical applications of the principles developed.

SOCIAL EDUCATION

By Colin Alexander Scott, Mt. Holyoke College. 300 pages

The social forces at work among pupils and the ways in which these can be utilized for education. Schools like the George Junior Republic and the Dewey School are studied for their suggestive value, but the book covers a much broader field.

EDUCATION AS GROWTH: OR THE CULTURE OF CHARACTER

By L. H. Jones, formerly President of Michigan State Normal College. 275 pages

A detailed discussion of the best ways of developing sound character through education. The method of the book is that of evolution, each chapter treating the spiritual life of the developing child on a higher level.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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