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Record ofCurrent EducationalPublications April1 4- June30 1931 ,/ Bulletin,1931, No.16 Office ofEducation,WilliamJohnCooper,Commissioner EL Departmentof theInterior,Ray LymanWilbur,Secretary 4 Edited byMartha R.McCabe United States e GovernmentPrinting Office Washington :1931 e a For saleby theSuperintendent a Documents, Washington,D. C. Prise 15cents CONTETS Letter oftransmittal rage I v Nursery-k.ndergarten-primaryeducation, EdnaDeap_ Baker,president, NationalCollege of Education,Evanston, Ill _ _ _ _ ______ Elementary 1 education,Ernest Horn,professor ofeducation,State Uni- versityof Iowa,Iowa City____ Secondary education,LeonardV. Koos,associate director,National Survey of SecondaryEducation,Washington, D.C Exceptiona) 13. children,Elise H.Martens,specialist ineducation ofexcep- ., tionalchildren,United StatesOffice ofEducation,Washington,D. C.._ 24. Educationalpsychology,M. E.Haggerty,dean, Collegeof Education, UniversityofMinnesota, _ _ _ Minneapolis_ _____ ______ _ JuniorColleges, 32 Walter C.Eons,associateprofessor ofeducation,Stanford University,Stanford,Calif__ Educationof 37 teachers, li.S. Evenden,associatedirector,NationalSurvey of theEducation cif Teachers,United StatesOffice ofEducation,Wash- ington,D. C _ _ _ 44 Colleges,universities,and graduateschools,Arthur J.Klein,professorof schooladministration,Ohio State University,Columbus__ _ _ _ 49 Public-schooladministration,Carter .Alexander,professorofeducatioi, TeachersCollege, ColumbiaUniversity,New YorkCity__ _ _ _ _ Adulteducation, _ _ 5Z, Alonzo G.Grace,assistantdirector,extensionteaching, UniversityofRochester,Rochester,N. Y Vocationaleducation MD ow 67 andguidance,Edwin A.Lee,professorofeducation, Universityof California,Berkeley Negroeducation, 68 Ambrose Caliver,specialist inNegroeducation,United StatesOfficeofEducation,Washington,D. C Foreign _ an= mm 74 education,James F.Abel, chief,foreign-schoolsystems United StatesOffice pfEducAtion,Washington,D. C_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Proceedings, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 75 reports, andOffice ofEducationpublications,Martha McCabe,assistant R. librariftn,United StatesOffice ofEOucation,Wash- ington, D.C_al _ _ Index__ _ _ 8g _ m Mk. III LETTEROF/94AN ITTAL DEPARTMENToi THE INTERIOR. OFFICEOF EDUCATION. Wa,q/cimiton,.C., July18, Leo]. SIR: I transmit- herewithamanuscriptentitled."Record ofCur- rent EducationalPublications,"Aprilto June. 1931. This is thethirdmanuscriptpublishedunder theplanrecently adopted of havingexperts in variouseducationalinstitutionsiddicate the items whichshould belisted byourlibrarystaff.Theresponse to this planindicatesthat thiskind ofabibliographyis fillinga;eal nèed.Onedifficultywhichwehaveyet toovercomeis gettingthis publicationinto thehands ofpotentialuserspromptly.We have succeeded in reducingthe timebetween thepublication ofabookor article and titlisting ofit inour manuczcript.With thecoopera- tion ofthe GovermicientPrintingOfficethe timerequiredfor publica- tion ha14 also beenreduced.Yetabulletinof thiskindmaybe off thepress forsomeweeksbefore sfudentsknow thatit isavailable. Possibly theremedy forthissituationcontstsin* fixingoiregulardate ofpublication. Sucha program wouldmakenecessaretherecog- nition ofthismaterialas a periodicalappearingquarterlyon adate to be announced. Thiswouldmake itpossibleto place advancesub- scriptions withtheSuperintendentofDocuments.Thissuggestion is here made thatusersof thisbulletinmaygiveustheiropinionsof itsadvisability. Respectfullysubmitted. WM. JOHNCOOPERCanunigxioner. THESECRETARYOF THE INTERIOR. 6 pi RECORDOFCURRENTEDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, Edited ietheLibraryDivision,Office ofEducation, byMartha R.McCabe NOTE Thisbibliographyincludesaclassifiedandbannotatedlist of edu- cationalpublicationsfor theperiodAprilto June, 1931,inclusive, whichhave beenselectedby thespecialists whosenamesappear at the headof eachsection.An indexof subjectsand authorsis fur- nishedwitheach 'numberof theRecord. Thisofficecan not supply thepublicationslisted hereinother than thoseexpresslydesignatedasitsownpublications.Books, periodi- cals, andpamphletsmentionedmayordinarilybe obtainedfrom their xespectivepublishers,eitherdirectlyorthroughadealer,or,fnthe caseofanassociationpublication,from thesecretary of that organization. s NURSERY-KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARYEDUCATION Edna DeanBaker Apistedby LouiseFarwell,Martha Fink,FrancesKern, M.Frances McElroy, andVera G. Sheldon CHILDDEVELOPMENT PHYSICAL ANDMENTALGROWTH 1. Poster, Josephine C.Social trainingof theyoung child.Journal ofthe Nationaleducationassociation, 20:135-36, Artil1931. A survey of social trendsinyoung children andhow to fostertheirdevelopment. 2. Hunt,N. X.Factorsinfluencing playof thepreschoolchild.(Social science monograph,1931)Reported inPsychologicalabstracts,5:306,June 1931. The subjectswere 26 children (14boys, 12 girls)at the Washington center of child-research Washington,D. C., fromSeptember,1929, toMa 1930. The 2 to 4years. ages ranted from Motion-picturesamplings ofthe morningoutdoor playactivitywere re- cordedover 51 days.Theactureswere analysed and found that e children classified.Itwas personality,age, and nursery-schoolexperien inniiencethe playand that intelligence,number ofchildren ina family,sex, aq4 nuttional conditionare of little importance.[E. B.Hein] . 1 2 CURRENTEDUCATIONALPUBLICATIONS J.3.Jones, HaroldE.Mental testsforyoung children. Newera, 12: 164, Bday1931. .A critical reviAvand evaluationof mentaltests for thepreschool child been employed as they have in theInstitute of childwelfare, Universityof California,which author directs. the See alsonos. k3, 85, 337. PROBLEMS OFBEHAVIOR 4. Bond, EarlD., andAppel, KennethE. Thetreatment ofbehavior dis- orders followingencephalitis:an experiment inre-education.New Yorkcity, TheCommonwealthfund, Divisionof pliblieations.1931. 163p. A report of an experiment atPennsylvania hospitalin studyingand treatingchildren whosebehavior disordersfollowedencephalitis.The procedures foruse in other describedare suggestive cases of difficult adjustmentnot occasionedby " sleepingsickness." 5. [Children'sfears] A symposium.Child study,8: 219-30,April 1931. A symposium On Fear in childhoodconducted by theChild studyassociation ofAmerica. JosephJastrow writesthe introductionMarion Millerdiscusses Fear Kenworthy, and fears; Marion The.txperiencesof birthin relationto fear;Mary Cover ment shows relative Jones, Whatexperi- tocauses andcures of fears; JohnLevy,Psychologyinterprets fear expressionsto getat(lilies. 6.Fenton, Norman C.Thevkitingchild-guidance'clinic in action.Ameri- can childhood, 16: 18-17,April 1931. Areporton thetraveli4demonstrationclinic whichin Inprogress In California the directionof the under author, whois directorof theCalifornitiBureau of Juvenileresearch. 7. IowaStateconferenceon child developmentandparent education. Toward understandingchildren.Iowa City,University ofIowa,1931. 95p. (*Universityof Iowa.Extension bull(tinno.261, February1931) *Addressesgiven bySidonleGruenberg,Esther LoringRichards,Helen Mitt, Sherman,M. Willard .Mandel Lampe, andMartha VanRensselaerbefore thefourth annualIowa State conferenceon child developmentandparent education, 18, 1930. Iowa City, Iowa,June17, 8. Mentalhygiene.Childwelfare,curreqtnos. Thecommittee on Mental hygieneaspects of childtraining ofthe Nationalcongress of parents andteachers, Dr.G40. K.Pratt,chairman,planned month. a practicalpage for each Topics:Fear,anger, jealousy,nervousness, intelligence,etc. 9.Patri, Angelo.Thequestioningchild.New York,N. Y. D.Appletonand company, 1931.221p. A seriesof 21informal discussionsconcerningproblems ofchild guidancerelativeto handicapped,normal, andgifted children.The talksdevelop from enced bythe author. concretecases experi- 10. Thom, D. A.Theeverydayproblems ofthe everydaychild health mental in theclassroom.Journal ofthe Nationaleducationassociation, 20: 175-76;195-96,May-June1931. A reprintof Dr.Thom'schapter "Teacher andpupil" in his everyday child. Everydayproblems of the This isa valuable articlefor all teachersofyounger children in order to avoidundesirablementalattitudes. 11. Understanding the child.Aillpgazineforteachers.Vol. 1,no.3, June 1931. The entireissue is given to the high lightsof the NewEngland conferenceon mental hygiene in education,and to digests ofpapers and discussions.Contains: Howthe teachermay create mental hygiene problems, William F..Blats; The Nurseryschool teach- ing social adjustment, AbigailA. Eliot; Preparingthe kindergartenchild for thegrades, Caroline D. Aborn. 12. Wiggam, Albert Edward.Home is fivetimesmore important.Better homes and ordens, 9':--25-26,April 1931. "Arewe as parents or brothers andsisters teaching ourselvesandone another to meet life with fear,self-depreciation, and doubt,or are we trying tobea dailyinspiradonto one another to meet life with theself-confidence andgood cheerthat calls out eachone's best energies?"The article hasbeen reviewed in theReader's digest,June 1981. 1. NURSERY-KINDERGABTEN-PRIAARYEDUCATION 3 CHILD EDUCATION GENERAL 13. Retting, Lucy.The family centersummerplayschool.Americanchild- hood; 16: 3, June 1931. A reportOnthe combined effortsof the Board ofeducation, the Child studyassociation and private individualsin;elation to this projectwhichwascarried out in thelower west side of New York city. 4 EDUCATION IN THE HOME 14. Blatz, WilliamE., and Bott, HelenM.Areyoufitto beafather? Parents magazine, 6:33, 58, June 1931. Twenty points constitute.the measuring rod 'whichdetermines father's positivecontri- bution to tbe child-rearingproblems of the home. 15. Canfield, Dorothy.What homecando forachild.McCall's