Author: James R. ShearerPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Massachusetts Home Project Plan of Vocational Agricultural Education
Author: James R. ShearerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Massachusetts Home-project Plan of Vocational Agricultural Education
Author: Rufus Whittaker StimsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Massachusetts Home-Project Plan of Vocational Agricultural Education. Bulletin, 1914, No. 8. Whole Number 579
Author: R. W. StimsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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For a large portion of the children of the United States, vocational education must mean education in agriculture and the art of life on the farm. In recognition of this fact, agriculture is now taught in some way and to some extent in hundreds of public high schools and in the lower schools of many of the States. Possibly the greatest difficulty in teaching this subject is that of making is sufficiently concrete and practical. Too often the teaching begins and ends with the assignment and recitation of lessons from the pages of a textbook. To make the teaching effective, each lesson must follow the necessary pedagogical order from concrete practical application. The pupil must become an intelligent worker and director of his own work and must learn not merely by looking on and listening, but by intelligent participation. The "Home-project plan" worked out in Massachusetts within the last few years and now applied in the State-aided schools of that State makes such intelligent participation possible. By requiring boys to do productive work as means of instruction, it enables many boys to continue their studies in schools who otherwise would not be able to do so. By projecting the work of the school into the home in the vital way in which it does, it enlists the interest of parents and becomes a means of their education in this subject, thus affecting quickly the work on the farms of the community. Because of the wide interest in this subject, this bulletin, which is divided into four chapters, presents information on the following topics: (1) Chapter I: Vocational Agricultural Education (elements necessary to success; the Massachusetts home-project plan; prizes and home projects; home projects of nonresidents; salaries for home-project instruction and supervision; cultural and agricultural; and farming and good citizenship); (2) Chapter II: Agricultural Project Study (productive work and related study; project study suitable for vocational agricultural schools; project study suitable for vocational agricultural departments in selected high schools; project study concentration; project study and capacity of pupils; kinds of project knowledge; project study records; apportionment of project study, time, and materials; vegetable-growing project study; small fruit-growing project study; beekeeping project study; poultry-keeping project study; sheep and goat husbandry project study; swine husbandry project study; ornamental planting project study; third-year and fourth-year project study; project study versus subject study; project study perspective; suggestions for the agricultural instructor; and conclusions); (3) Chapter III: Project Study Outlines for Vegetable Growing (project study and vegetable groups; project study by vegetable groups; and project study by vegetable varieties; and (4) Chapter IV: Agricultural Project Study Bibliography (agricultural papers and periodicals; free bulletins, circulars and reports; text, exercise, and reference books, bulletins, circulars, and reports; agricultural project study bibliography, arranged for ready reference; and publishers and their addresses. An appendix presents the types of Massachusetts agricultural schools (by William T. Bawden). An index is also included. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 11 plates.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects
Author: Rufus Whittaker StimsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects
Author: Rufus Whittaker StimsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects
Author: Rufus W. StimsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330227848
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Excerpt from Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects The Act of Congress known as the "Smith-Hughes Act" requires at least six months a year of "supervised practice in agriculture," either on a farm provided for by a school or on some other farm. This minimum requirement must be met by all who desire federal aid for vocational agricultural education. The home-project plan, reviewed in the following pages, meets this requirement. Plant projects, from the preparation of the land to the storage or the disposal of the products, have a natural life of fully six months. Animal projects are better for supervision, nine, ten, or eleven months a year. Typewritten and mulligraphed memoranda, also special reports and bulletins of the Board of Education, have set forth certain features of the home-project plan, from time to time, for the information of the Legislature and of those teaching agriculture in Massachusetts. They have not been prepared in such quantities, nor published in such editions, as to permit of general distribution. Special addresses and papers by the author, on one or another phase of the plan, have appeared in various publications, such as the "Proceedings of the Harvard Teachers' Association," "Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society," "Report of the Canadian Seed Growers Association," the Quarterly of Alpha Zeta, Business America, the New England Homestead, the Congregationalist and the Christian World, the School Review, the "Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education," and American Education. A hundred-page description of the plan was published in 1914, as Bulletin No. 579, by the United States Bureau of Education. Calls for information from without the state, - greatly multiplied since the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, - and lack of available printed matter, have prompted the preparation of this book. Its chapters are chapters of experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Project method of teaching
Author: John Alford StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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History of Agricultural Education of Less Than College Grade in the United States
Author: Rufus Whittaker StimsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The School and the Start in Life
Author: Bird Thomas BaldwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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A Study of the Project Method in Education
Author: Harold Bernard AlbertyPublisher:
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Category : Project method in education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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