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Title: A Guide to Methods and Observation in History
Studies in High School Observation

Author: Calvin Olin Davis

Release Date: March 24, 2007 [EBook #20893]

Language: English

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A GUIDE TO METHODS AND OBSERVATION IN HISTORY

STUDIES IN HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATION

By

CALVIN OLIN DAVIS

_Assistant Professor of Education
in the University of Michigan_

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
NEW YORK CHICAGO

_Copyright, 1914_,
By Rand, McNally & Company

The Rand-McNally Press
_Chicago_

INTRODUCTION

The outlines herewith presented have grown out of the necessities of a
course conducted by the writer in the training of teachers in the
University of Michigan. The course has been styled "Methods and High
School Observations in History." It has been open only to seniors and
graduate students who have specialized in history and who expect to
teach that subject in high schools. The work has consisted of one class
meeting per week for eighteen weeks, and of twenty hour-observations of
history teaching in the Ann Arbor High School. The outlines, therefore,
were designed to serve as a guide to these observations and as a basis
for subsequent discussions.

In order that the students might have a deeper appreciation of the
meaning of history and the various conceptions that have been held
regarding it, and in order that they might possess at least a general
knowledge of the place history has occupied in the schools, the
elements composing historical events, and the values attributed to
historical study, it seemed appropriate to preface the special queries
respecting method by some introductory suggestions of a general
character. This fact explains the inclusion of such material as is
found in the first few pages of the present booklet.

In the hope, therefore, that students of Education in other colleges,
universities, an