John Aubel Kratz, Chief,
Vocational Rehabilitation Service

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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]

FIGURES

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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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