Skinner, Langfitt and Others An Introduction to Modern Education An Introduction to Modern Education has been written to meet the need for a well-integrated, modern text in the relatively new field of the orientation or survey course. Though designed primarily for the use of students in normal schools, teachers colleges, schools of education, and college departments of education, it should prove to be profitable reading for teachers in service as well, and for adult education groups, school administrators, and public-minded citizens who are concerned with the way education is going or should go. The emphasis of the book is primarily social, but the historical, psychological, and philosophical aspects of modern education have received adequate treatment. Education is both a social process and a social function. It is dynamic, changing to meet the major needs of a changing society, and also transmissive, conserving the established values of past social experience. Accordingly, whatever in educational experience is new and important, and whatever is old but still functional, will be found in this text. The book is authoritative, being the work of a group of experts, each writing in his own field. All the contributors are administrators and professors of high standing and broad experience. Most of them have taught the orientation or survey course. All were guided by the general pattern devised to give unity to the variety of contributions and prevent overlapping and duplication. The Table of Contents reveals the wide reach and the close organization of the material included. The introductory chapter on the school as a social institution and the chapters on the rise of the characteristic institutions of American education provide the background for understanding current problems. The chapters on the relation of school and community are a special new study, emphasizing the need of correlating school and community activities. They are followed by a group of chapters dealing with the forms, functions, and control of public education, or what may be termed the administrative aspects of education. The chapters dealing with the forms, functions, and control of public education, or what may be termed the administrative aspects of education. The chapters on the art of teaching consider the individual as the unit of learning, the nature of learning, the dignity and importance of the teaching profession, traditional and new techniques of teaching, and the question of the relation of physical and mental health to education. The chapter on educational measurements advocates the substitution of scientific evaluation of educational results for opinion. The final chapters review educational progress to date and present the most important current philosophies of education. A useful brief appendix explains certain fundamental statistical procedures as they apply to education and psychology. Thus the book offers a practical, comprehensive overview of modern education, covering all the topics that are usually treated in the orientation course.

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