The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-18

ally examine nature study DOCKS, InuS
providing each member of the class
with an annotated photography of the
subject; to finally seek out the greatest
educational values in the common
things of nature about u.s. This latter
is the aim of the course. Experience
of the past three years has yielded re-
suits of considerable value by way of
determining the kind of work children
of different ages are able to do with
profit This will be utilized as far as
1t goes in arranging a curriculum for
the different grades.
Devices for studying plant life Will
occupy a section of the laboratory ana
will include simple experiments and
methods for demonstrating the various
points of Importance in the life his
tory of bacteria and moulds.
In addition to the above, 1t is pro-
posed to spend as much time as posi-
BILE out of doors. making excursions,
studying birds nests insects, trees and
weeds. and plants of city streets, gar
dens and parks, gathering suggestions
and investigating the possibilities for
mature study in city streets, gardens
and parks. In addition to the above
by DR.. Hodge, on Physiology and by
giene of sleep" and another by DR..
John M. Tyler of Amherst, on 1.-THE
struggle for existence"
Pedagogy and school hygiene.-Dr
Burnham will lecture on some of the
newer chapters in school hygiene that
| specially concern teachers. The point
in view in this course will be that of
the physiology and psychology of de-
velopment. Our curricula and 18th
DDS have been determined primary by
the narrower scholastic and pegagogi-
cal Ideals rather than by hygienic prin-
ciples. The hygienic aspects of peda-
Il f.z1.. do
gethcr with the more concrete teachings
of hygiene in regard to the different
subjects of the curriculum and the sur
lroundings of the school child, will be
discussed Such topics as the follow
ling viii be treated The point of view
of school hygiene. Notifications of
present conditions demanded by the
hygiene of instruction.; the hygienic
aspects CT educational principles and
methods; the hygiene of reading and
singing; the hygiene of writing; the
| hygiene of manual training and physi-
cal training; the hygiene of arithmetic
and other subjects; recent studies of
nervous fatigue in school children; the
| period of study, receSSeS, home study,
etc: ventilation and cleanliness, recent
studies. school furniture and appara-
tus. the general hygiene of the school
child both at home and in the school;
| school diseases; the causes of over
pressure; growth and development; de-
| fects of the senses; general survey of
the field; conclusions; suggestions in
| regard to an ideal school and school
house, embodying the teachings of hy-
giene the training of teachers in re-
gard to school hygiene.
| Daily conferences will be held by diff
ferent instructors for the discussion of
| educational psychological and hygienic
problems. A provisional list for a part
r.l11 DON'T
| Hall-Topics to be announced later. DR..
Sanford-The teaching of psychology
in normal schools and in secondary
| schools. DIR. Chamberlain-Topic to
be announced later. DR.. Burnham-
Topics in school hygiene. DR.. Hodge
The study of nature in the public
schools; evening lecture-Convention
VS.. nature in the history and the pres
ent practice of education.
Fl. d. Sheldon will give course of
six lectures treating of centralized con-
troll and individual initiative in modern
education; recent tendencies to central
ization in administration and curricu-
lum; the value of individual initiative
in educa ton, containing a summary of
recent studies on the pedagogical sig
nifcance of play, social activities Of
children and adolescents.
| Psychology. The work in psychology
will consist of two courses, one by DR..
Ernest H. Lindley on general psycholo-
gy and one by Dr. Edmund c. Sanford
| on comparative and individual psychol-
ogy General sketch of normal psy-
chology. The purpose of this course
will be a rapid survey of the most inn
| portant standpoints and results of re-
| cent psychological investigation. The
following topics will be treated in the
! lectures: Association, memory sensa-
ton and perception, sensation and
movements, attention, emotion and Vo-
lition. Comparative and individual.
| The first section of this course is in
tended to present in brief summary,
the most important of recent contribu-
lions to animal psychology and their
bearing upon questions of human intel
ligence.
The second section of the course will
| be devoted to sketching, so far as may
be possible, the different types of mem
| tai constitution, that is, in general to
the psychology of personality and cha
racter. The following topics will be
treated: Mental types, differences due
to apperception and habit; tempera-
ments and emotional differences; eff
fects of age, health and disease; alter
ations of personality; differences in
character and action. DR.. Sanford will
also give an evening lecture on some
radical aspects of psychology.
! Psychic evolution. DIR. G. Stanley
Hall will offer a course of daily lee
lures on 1.-The evolution of the human
| soul" This will be an essentially new
course and will be a comparative treat
ment of the psychology Of animals, sa-
wages and children, and will include
| those special later phases of psychic
evolution represented in the history of
philosophy. AS a whole, the course will
be an attempt to found a new
philosophy of education not founded
on individual speculation of ancient or
modern thinkers but broadly based on
evolution and having the momentum of
the whole developmentel push upward
of life behind it.
Select references will be given, books
and articles demonstrated, many maps
charts, and other material will be
! shown and an effort made for the first
time to sum up the genetic movement
It's practical application will be trac-
ed in some detail to each subject of
the school course-reading arithmetic
/ geography, language, ancient and mo-
/ dern science, religion, morals and ply
steal training; and a new course of stu
dy will be outlined for an ideal school,
/ such as the above studies now begin
to suggest. Some attention will be paid
to certain approximation TO these ideals
! in certain recent movements and insti-
buttons in this and in other countries
The following evening lectures have
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