“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen perception of just what her own position ought to be.”
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“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”
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KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY. Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15
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“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, ‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes. Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining, stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training. Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic, geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School R
“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to all students of educational psychology.”
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