Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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We have already mentioned to you the general excellence of the discs and tapes produced under the Academic Recording Institute label— but one in particular should be brought forcefully to the attention of .school menteachers, teacher trainers and teachers in training throughout the country and wherever English is spoken and understood. We refer to Ashley Montagu's The Meaninf^ Of Education. In this recording the eminent anthropologist is interviewed by Virgilia Peterson. She deftly leads Dr. Montagu through a discussion which involves many aspects of education, including its functions in terms of a variety of skills development, the problems of communicating a body of knowledge in a situation where communication involves both presentation and reception, the development of the individual as a function of education and the consequent growth of human relations practices. Liberal educators will particularly applaud Dr. Montagu's established position in viewing and reviewing the word 'progressive', with all its connotations. And the exploration of the rapidly climaxing trend toward conformity will challenge some, make others smugly self-satisfied, and cause others to dismiss with a shrug some of the more volatile statements. This recording can serve many functions and belongs in every teacher training institution in the country! It is a matter of regret to me that not every teacher and teacher-to-bc has had an opportunity to hear this. In colleges it can be used to motivate discussion, to challenge thinking and thereby encourage reading and to give students a feeling that education is far from static but rather is a dynamic force in the modern world, one which is constantly changing witli the world and, at the same time, changing the world. Teachers can hear this presentation profitably. It can be used in teacher meetings and other professional gatherings to serve ends parallel to those the recording can serve in colleges. Libraries can circulate it or use it in special .sessions to enlighten and to challenge a responsible segment of the general public. This is an excellent, unsurpassed, presentation of challenging ideas— the results of a professional career in education—which commend and take to ta.sk our current public and private education at all levels. The Meaning Of Education is one of ten recordings in the series featuring Ashley Montagu. The entire series of discussions is inter-related and interconnected, and each has a contribution to make. Similarly, recordings by C. Northcote Parkinson, Samuel Eliot Morison, John Mason Brown and Charles Frankel belong in audio libraries serving thinking people. For detailed information about these records RUN, do not walk to the nearest postbox and mail an inquiry to the Academic Recording Institute, 3060 Locke Lane, Houston 19, Texas. Music teachers may be able to use Invitation To Music (Folksays FT .3603) to great advantage. Admittedly, and perhaps by design, the material presented is quite elementary. Elie Siegmeister, composer and conductor, discusses music he has liked as a personal matter. This is no mere illustrated lecture but rather is a guided tour through the likes (but not the dislikes, except by innuendo) of the speaker. The technique of the recording is simple yet effective. This is the illustrated tour, so to speak, and .\lr. Siegmeister not only tells us what he enjoys, why he enjoys it, but also wliat he looks for in a given composition or performance. The recording is involved with such matters as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, counterpoint and tone coloration. To the credit ol the recording, there are many carefully selected examples interpolated intc it. And from the listener's standpoim we wish there had been longer selec tions presented. Somehow, there is s choppiness to the presentation basec' on the desire of the auditor to hea: more. Perhaps this is all to the goot in instruction for tlie alert teacher cai take small sections of the recordin; and present it to a class as motivatioi for listening. Then information can be presented through associated record ings involving a total .selection rathe AQd Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — August, 196