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Walker, Thomas D. – 1996
This paper documents the "inspection visit" program which existed at the University of Illinois library school between 1895 and 1948 whereby library school students would take extended "field trips" to nearby or even distant libraries. Topics include issues concerned with the visits themselves, their role in the library school…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
Brown, Willis C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary Education, High School Students