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FILM AND EDUCATION
by the fact that human living is complex and difficult to organize into units which may be readily comprehended by the youth in our schools.
When the school curriculum consisted largely of reading, writing, and arithmetic, the bulk of our social learnings was gained through experiences outside of the school walls. Then as our way of life became more involved, history and geography were added to the school curriculum to aid the growing citizen in his understanding of how the present grew out of the past, and how man has adjusted himself to his environment. At about the turn of the past century the study of civics was introduced to furnish students with training in citizenship. Recently a growing number of schools have added courses in economics, sociology, and international relations. An increasingly large number of schools now teach a Problems of Democracy course which introduces students to contemporary political, social and economic problems.
Most of the above courses have been added to the secondary school course of study and borrow their subject matter from the findings of the social scientists. Thus the term social science is usually applied to studies which have as their objectives the addition of factual information to man's sum of knowledge. The social studies as taught in our schools are intended to "provide the basis for making the world of today intelligible to the pupils, for training them in certain skills and habits and for inculcating attitudes and ideals that will enable boys and girls to make their places as efficient and effective members of a democratic society."2
The problem of using motion pictures as tools of instruction in elementary school social studies has been made more difficult not only by the addition of materials adapted from the various social sciences, but also by the diverse forms of organization which the various school systems have worked
2 Bining, Arthur, C., and Bining, David, H., Teaching the Serial Studies in Secondary Schools. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1935. p. 3.
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