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

other politicians as well as innkeepers and teachers. In short, they met a cross-section of the American people. Ill their diaries, and in the book Ihnwcracy In America which was published after their return to France, these two yoimg Frenchmen recorded their observations about our forelathers. The book was hailed as a classic analysis of the young republic. Now the Fund for Adult Education has commissioned 14 recordings based on the book and titled "Where Could I Be Better Off?" (a study in Jacksonian America), "The Governor in the Boarding Hous~e" (a study in American equality), "The Fourth of July in Albany, 1831" (a study in .American independence), "The Ark of 'Civilization" (a study in American (character) , "Any Woman is a Lady" (a study in American manners), "The Cement of Democracy" (a study in American religion), "The Cold Water Army" (a study in American progress), "The Heavenly Prison" (a study ill American reform), "The Tyranny of the Majority" (a study in American Freedom, "Common Sense and Moonshine" (a study in American education), "The Chief Instrument of Freedom" (a study of the American press), "The Aristocrats of Democracy" (a study in American law and lawyers ) , "The Happy Republic" (a study in American values ) and "These Precious Premises" (a study in political optimism). We have not yet heard (at this writing) all of these recordings— but those that we have heard indicate an xciHng experience (hardly passivel) ihead. And from what we have already heard we can rec-ommend these recordings without reservation to the variety of listeners and users, students and educators, librarians and patrons— erybody!— who wants to know more •bout the backgrounds of American lemocracy and to understand the redactions of those who want our privileges and rights as they see us in K tion. And surely this has an application t(i modern history! According to the album frontispiece, "These recordings have been created as part of a general course of study on the nature of American society." Additional data is available from the American Foundation for Conj( tinning Education, 19 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago 3, Illinois, and we urge you to write for it. The recordings themselves are. available in album SW-A30 which is available from The Spoken Word, 10 East 39th Street, New York 16. We urge you to order it! Comments and materials for review should be sent to the department editor—Max U. Bildersee, 36 Holmes Dale, Albany 3, N. Y. A Look Ahead It suddenly struck us that today's newborn infant will be a candidate for a B.A. or a B.S. degree in 1984! That, coupled with the explosion in knowledge we are experiencing indicates that it is now time to do something drastic! The fallout pattern from the explosion in the numbers of students who seek admittance to our institutions of higher learning will touch each of us and will undoubtedly alter the pattern of education within the next decade. Does audiovisual education face this too? Of course! Curriculum planners are toda>' studying their problems with totally different orientation. Yesterday's curriculum was based on what a given teacher should be able to teach a given number of children in a given number of hours. Tomorrow's course of study will be more highly personalized. It will involve only what a given child can learn from a great many sources and through a great many avenues in a given period of time. It is not improbable that some children in the junior high school may be studying advanced forms of mathematics while others are still struggling with multiplication and division or decimals or even addition and subtraction. It is not unlikely that some will be reading and profiting from de Tocqueville's Democracy In America y you'll prefer the Keystone COMPACT Overhead Projector does FAR MORE -in LESS SPACE for the Classroom Light . . . Easily Portable . . . Noiseless . . . and Reliable — and projects ALL of these 1. Thousands of 3^4" x 4" Prepared Transparencies on Science, Social Studies, Music, Art and Reading Readiness. 2. Map Transparencies. 3. Polaroid Transparencies. 4. Tachistoslides for teaching Reading, Music, Shorthand, Arithmetic, Typewriting, Foreign Languages. 5. Practical, Usable Handmade Slides and Transparency Materi als. Etched Glass Slides used with ordinary lead pencil. 6. Also Projects 2", 214" Slides, Strip Film, Microscopic Slides. The Keystone COMPACT Overhead Projector and many of the items listed are purchasable in many states under Title III of the NDEA. In Your Own Classroom, have a demonstration of all these uses. Write to KEYSTONE VIEW CO., Meadville, Pa. Since 1892, Producers of Superior Visual Aids. /ludio CARDALOG® Record Reviews on Card — A WORLD OF SOUND ON FILE — INDIVIDUAL CROSS-INDEXED 3x5 CARDS ALREADY ISSUED! PLUS the Audio CARDALOG DIRECTORY of Record Producers SUBSCRIBE NOW — $25.00 a year Audio CARDALOG— Box 1771, Albany 1, New York Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1962 319