Cloth, 12mo, 247 pages, $1.25
Readers of “The Educative Process” and “Classroom Management” by Director W. C. Bagley of the University of Illinois will welcome the author’s new book on “Craftsmanship in Teaching.” The book is made up of a series of addresses given before educational gatherings, the subject of the first one giving the book its name. In these addresses the personality of the author is more in evidence than is possible in his more systematic work, but the same sane, scientific point of view is apparent throughout.
Classroom Management
Cloth, xvii + 332 pages, $1.25
This book considers the problems that are consequent upon the massing of children together for purposes of instruction and training. It aims to discover how the unit-group of the school system—the “class”—can be most effectively handled. The topics commonly included in treatises upon school management receive adequate attention; the first day of school; the mechanizing of routine; the daily programme; discipline and punishment; absence and tardiness, etc.
The Educative Process
Cloth, xix + 358 pages, $1.25
The book aims to prevent a waste of energy on the part of the young teacher by setting forth a systematic and comprehensive view of the task that is to be accomplished by the school, with the working principles for the attainment of the end. The best idea for the author’s plan of treatment can be had from his division of the book. Part I discusses the function of education and of the school in biological and sociological terms. Part II continues the same topic from the psychological standpoint. Part III deals with the functioning of experience in its relation to the educative process. Part IV treats of the relation of education to the three periods of child-development: the transitional, the formative, the adolescent. Part V considers educational values and the necessity of ideals in the educative process, and Part VI concludes with the technique of teaching.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY