A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

e. Side by side with scientific histories, works of the older types are still being produced.

References: Langlois and Seignobos, Introduction to the Study of History, pp. 63-70, 211-231, 296-321. Bernheim, Einleitung in die Geschichtswissenschaft, pp. 5-13, 33-43, 72-78. Fling, Outline of Historical Method, pp. 5-124. Robinson, History, Columbia University Press, 1908. Rhodes, in Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXV, pp. 158-169. Winsor, in Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXVI, pp. 289-297.

II. The Problem of Adapting History to Children

1. Special Guidance sought in the “Natural” Tastes and Interests of Children.

a. These determined by experiment.

b. Sometimes regarded as a final criterion.

c. Reinforced by the culture epoch theory.

d. Conclusion: “The childhood of history for the child, the boyhood of history for the boy, the youthhood of history for the youth, the manhood of history for the man.”

e. The conclusion interpreted.

1. Facts to be selected and arranged according to their cultural stages and not according to time or place of occurrence.