Educational film magazine; (19-)

Eatabliahed January, 1919 ^•ttJe Pui;u^ . PUBLISHED MONTHLY. COVERINO MOTION PICTURES IN THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENTS: AgrictMwre Community Biography Current Events Civict and Oovemment Cultural Drama Fine DoLPH Eastman, Editor-in-Chief Geography Health and Sanitation Pedagogy History Industry Recreational Home Ecoruymics Juvenile Religion Arts Literature Natural History Mabel G. Fosteb, Associate Editor EDITORIAL BOARD: Scenic Science Sociology Technical Topical Travel Welfart Women Leona Block. Industrial Editor J. W. Shephehd. Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Department of Visual Educa- tion, University of Oklahoma, Chairman. Mks. Woodallen Chapman, Chairman Committee, Community Service on Motion Pictures, General Federation of Women's Oubs. William Sheafk Chase, Rector Christ Episcopal Church, BrooklsTi, New York. Ebnsst L. Cranoall, Director of Lectures and Vis- ual Instruction, Board of Education, New York City Miss Mary E. Gearing, Professor of Home Eco- nomics and Director Home Economics Extension. University of Texas. William M. Gregory, Curator of the Educational Museum and Professor of Geography In the Geve- land School of Education. Dudley Grant Hays, Assistant Superintendent of Schools and Director of Visual Instruction, Chicago, Illinois. V. A. C. Henmon, Director School of Education and Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin. J. E. MacAfee, Community Welfare Counselor, University of Oklahoma. William A. McCall, Assistant Professor of Educei- tion. Teachers' College, Columbia University. James A. Mover, Director of University Extension, Massachusetts Department of Education. Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superinten- dent of Public Instruction, Washington. David Snedden, Professor of Educational Sociology and Vocational Education, Teachers' College, Co- lumbia University. Carl C. Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Director Department of Rural Life, State College of Agri- culture and Engineering, North Carolina. William S. Taylor, Assistant Director of Teacfaera* Bureau, Pennsylvania Department of Public In- struction. L. M. Terman, Professor of Educational Psychology, Stanford University. Miss Charl Ormond Williams, County Superinten- dent, Shelby County, Tennessee, and President of the National Education Association. Note: To this personnel will be added, as soon as acceptances are received, editorial representatives of the churches and church organizations, social wel- fare organizations, community groups, and other groups whose motion picture activities should be thus represented.—EorroR-iN-CHiEP. Vol. VII FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1922 No8. 2-3 MAKE VISUAL EDUCATION A FEATURE ON EVERY N. E. A. CONVENTION PROGRAM ROBERTSON GODFREY JONES, President of the Department of Superintendence, has announced the following five divisions of subject matter for the program of the Department of Superinten- dence of the National Education Association to be held at Chicago, February 24 to March 3: 1—What types of education does this country require? 2—What physical property will be necessary to insure its promotion ? 3—What technique in education may be expected from our advanced curricula? 4—How much education can the country afford? How much more can we secure for our money through elimination of wasteful processes and organization? 5—^What benefits shall accrue to the children of the United States through public education? This tentative basis for a program, while not definitely mentioning the administrative problems in connection with visual methods in education, nevertheless gives ample opportunity for their presentation and discussion. Cer- tainly no ample discussion of item mmiber 2, "physical property," could at this time fail to consider such equip- ment as motion picture projectors and screens, educational films, stereographs, lantern slides, and other visual aids, and no adequate discussion of architectural plans and poli- cies could omit these factors. For an architect to plan an auditorium without a fireproof booth for the motion picture projector and without adequate location for a screen, is to admit a distressing lack of knowledge of present day educa- tional needs and demands. No school auditorium can now be considered complete without a booth, projector, and screen properly planned and placed. The day is not far distant when the architect must have the projector and screen in mind in planning individual classrooms, lighting effects, blackboard space, wiring, etc. In fact the time has already come when the outlet in the back of the room ought to be placed in new buildings in every classroom to provide for that day when the projector will be a feature in classroom procedure. Item number 3 certainly requires a discussion of visual methods in education or technique of visual pres- entation. Perhaps the most fundamental of all educational aims and purposes is that of building concepts. Concepts arise out of the reactions of sense experience and the result- ing imagery. The visual s€ase is far more active and ef- fective than all of the other senses combined. This is particularly true when the attempt is made to introduce sense experience within the classroom for it there becomes much more practical and possible to see the thing, in pic- torial form at least, than it is to hear, feel, smell, or taste it; and the resulting concept is more complete and accurate. While imagery of all kinds is important and" necessary, yet we actually use much more visual imagery than we do that of all other imagery combined and it is out of this imagery