CONTENTS

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Foreword		[vii]
Section I. Introduction		[1]
Section II. Purpose of the bulletin		[4]
Section III. Determining content for a course in art related to the home		[10]
	Place of art in the vocational program in home economics	[10]
	Objectives for the teaching of art	[12]
	Essential art content	[14]
	Home situations for which art is needed	[17]
Section IV. Suggestive teaching methods in art related to the home		[22]
	Creating interest	[22]
	Discussion of method in the teaching of art	[29]
	Suggested procedure for developing an ability to use a principle of proportion for attaining beauty	[34]
	Suggested plan for the development of an understanding of the principle of proportion and its use	[34]
	Details of lesson procedure	[35]
	Series of suggested problems to test pupils' ability to recognize and use the principle of proportion just developed	[38]
	Further suggestions for problems, illustrative materials, and assignments	[40]
	Class projects	[42]
	Notebooks	[43]
	The place of laboratory problems	[46]
	Field trips	[53]
	Measuring results	[55]
	Evidences of the successful functioning of art in the classroom	[55]
	Evidences of the successful functioning of art in the home	[58]
	Home projects	[66]
	Suggestive home projects in which art is an important factor	[68]
Section V. Additional units in art related specifically tohouse furnishing and clothing selection		[72]
Section VI. Illustrative material		[75]
	Purpose	[75]
	Selection and sources	[75]
	Use	[77]
	Care and storage	[79]
Section VII. Reference material		[81]
	Use of reference material	[81]
	Sources of reference material	[81]
	Bibliography	[82]
Index		[85]

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1.	An arrangement of wild flowers and grasses and a few books placedon a blotter on a typewriter table in front of an inexpensiveindia print may furnish a colorful spot in any schoolroom. Notethe effective use of the screen in concealing a filing case	[7]
2.	A bulletin board on which it is necessary to use a variety ofmaterials adds to the appearance of the room when these materialsare well arranged and frequently changed	[8]
3.	Pupils in a Nebraska high school try out different flowers and arrangements	[9]
4.	In a Nebraska high school a screen was used in an unattractivecorner as a background for an appreciation center	[24]
5.	The simplest school furnishings can be combined attractively.A low bookcase, a bowl of bittersweet, and a passe partoutpicture as here used are available in most schools	[26]
6.	A few pieces of unrelated illustrative material may be groupedsuccessfully in bulletin-board space	[28]
7.	Sprouted sweetpotato produced this attractive centerpiece for the home table	[29]
8.	Glass-paneled doors open from the dining room directly into amain first-floor corridor in the high school at Stromsburg, Nebr.	[30]
9.	The dresser as found in the dormitory room	[43]
10.	The same dresser after the class in related art had remodeled and painted it	[43]
CHARTS
1.	Suggestions for use of this bulletin by teachers	[5]
2.	Analysis of the value of notebooks in art courses	[44]
3.	Types and sources of illustrative materials	[76]

Publications of the Federal Board for Vocational Education relating to home-economics education		[89]

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