A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

d. The economic interpretation of history.

e. Material supplied by Documentary History of American Industrial Society, 10 volumes, to be published, 1909-1910.

References: Dopp, Place of Industries in Education, pp. 97-260. Rice, in Year Book, Society for Scientific Study of Education, 1903, pp. 9-14. Wood, Report on Teaching History, pp. 11-17. Lamprecht, What is History? pp. 3-35. Dodd, in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXIII, pp. 418-424. Seligman, Economic Interpretation of History. Biedermann, Geschichtsunterricht ... nach Kulturgeschichtlicher Methode, pp. 5-45. Bernheim, in Neue Bahnen, Vol. X, pp. 285-300.

VIII. Making the Past Real

1. Where the Textbooks Fail.

a. Reading matter usually insufficient for clear images of material aspects of the past or for definite impressions of past mental states.

b. Within certain limits definiteness and simplicity secured by brevity of statement.

c. But the principle of making a thing elementary by not saying much about it carried too far.

d. Stories inherently simple often expanded; those inherently difficult often abridged. School history would be more intelligible if the conditions were reversed.

2. Special Aids to Visualization.