Date of Award
5-1940
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Degree Discipline
History
Abstract
What teachers have been confronted with is how to tell facts. That one could present a method in history to work under all conditions is absurd; the best that can be done is to lay down some general principles which when applied by some keenly alive teacher to the duties and appointment of his profession may aid him in securing the desired results. In the book entitled Practical Methods, Aids and Devices For Teaching, Beecher states in the words of Gudson that there are some people who think history a simple matter because forsooth it is merely the telling of facts as they are. I do not know any thing more difficult in this world than to tell facts as they are. Teaching of history is not primarily that of crowding the brain with facts about the past; but that the child may live more completely in his world that he meets the problems of political, economical, intellectual and religious life fairly and squarely offering solutions based upon experiences of the past.1
To discuss this topic correctly the writer must state the purposes of this study.
A. Purposes of this study The writer has seven purposes in writing this thesis: (1) To find and present a brief historical background of history teaching in the fifty-two high schools of Texas; (2) to survey the methods of teaching history employed in these schools; (3) to describe the school and community, equipment, and resources utilized in the teaching procedures; (4) to ascertain the preparation of the teachers who are teaching history; (5) to establish the degree of correlation between history and other courses in the curricula; (6) to criticize and evaluate these methods and devices of history teaching; and (7) to formulate a history teaching program adaptable to these schools.
1 Walter Julius Beecher, Practical Methods, Aids and Devices For Teaching, p. 182
Committee Chair/Advisor
S. E. Warren
Publisher
Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College
Rights
© 2021 Prairie View A & M University
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Date of Digitization
8-16-2021
Contributing Institution
John B Coleman Library
City of Publication
Prairie View
MIME Type
Application/PDF
Recommended Citation
Tucker, W. A. (1940). A Historical Analysis of Methods of Teaching History in Fifty-Two High Schools in Texas. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/259