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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39
appreciation of worthy values. The topics and materials of the programs are selected on the basis of their probable influence in evoking such responses. To this end, the American School of the Air from the outset published and distributed a Manual for teachers which includes suggestions for discussions, readings, projects, and activities which, it is hoped, will be of substantial aid in making dynamic whatever values may inhere in the programs. To this end, too, those in charge of the broadcasts greatly desire and warmly welcome suggestions and criticisms from teachers, from pupils, and from other listeners-in who are interested in the educational possibilities of this relatively new agency of communication.
In the preparation of its programs the American School of the Air has been fortunate in enlisting the cooperation of recognized, important, and responsible educational institutions and organizations. This policy insures for the materials of the broadcasts an authenticity which it wotdd be difficult if not impossible otherwise to provide. Among the programs scheduled in the present Manual, “This Living World” is produced in cooperation with the National Education Association. The Progressive Education Association has similarly cooperated in the preparation of “Frontiers of Democracy.” “Tales from Far and Near” is presented in conjunction with the association for Arts in Childhood, the American Library Association and the National Coimcil of Teachers of English. The National Education Association and the American Museum of Natural History are jointly collaborating in the production of the series “New Horizons.”
The piece that I have chosen for this anthology is not new in technique, nor startling in content, and it is without literary value. It is, however, of tremendous educational value. It has carefully avoided dramatizing a subject that would appeal to most novices as being highly dramatizable. Instead the subject has been handled in the only way by which it can be properly done: by the use of the simplest of conversational structures. This treatment has two very important factors : a true quality of informality and a feeling in the listeners (school children) that they are overhearing that most exciting of all things, adtdt conversation on events that are happening in a grown-up world. I do not need to point out the psychological advantage here.
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