Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

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Visual Education A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE BUSINESS OF AMERICAN EDUCATION Harley L. Clarke, Acting President Forest R. Moulton, Secretary L. M. Belfield, Managing Editor B. C. Brumm, Business Manager William Chandler Bagley, Contributing Editor Subscription Foreign Countries Single Copies ■ Back Numbers . .00 a Year • $1.50 15 Cents -25 Cents VOLUME 4 APRIL 1923 NUMBER 4 The Opportunities of the Specialist in Visual Edltcation — Editorial 106 William Chandler Bagley A Controlled Experiment with a Visual Aid 107 N. G. Wiltse Safety Movies — Their Field, Value and Appeal -108 George Earl Wallis What We Have Gained from School Films ..— Ill /. /. Zmrhal When the Mothers Earned a School Projector -114 Motion Pictures in Business : How the North Shore Line Used Films in Americanizing Its Alien Workers.. 1 1 5 Tenderfooting Through Glacier National Park 118 A. E. Demaray 'We Call This Work Visual Education" 120 Louise Connolly From an N. E. A. Convention Notebook 123 'Why We Use Movies" .125 A digest of the experience of film-users in various fields of zvork and service "And the World Laughs with You" 127 The Films in Review : 128 Driven — The Pilgrim — The Christian — The Four Seasons Keeping Abreast of the Screen 130 Brief comments on current films for the information of parents and teachers The Film Field ..133 Classified selection of films suggested for school and general non-theatrical use, with addresses of distributors Copyright 1923, by the SOCIETY FOR VISUAL EDUCATION, Inc., Chicago FORECAST FOR MAY A Visualized Lesson on the Parts and Purpose of a Flower A "type lesson" in biology, as it would be conducted by the Director of Visual Education for Los Angeles County, with pictures of some of the many visual materials employed in preparation and presentation. A Program for State-Wide Film Distribution The head of the Visual Instruction Bureau of Indiana University discusses major phases of the visual education problem, including such questions as that of inflammable vs. non-inflammable films, training of visualists, development of film libraries, and the place of entertainment films in school activities. Vitalizing the Teaching of Agriculture The origin and practice of a method which has revolutionized the teaching of agriculture, home economics, geography, and the three R's in rural schools — a method that concerns itself with the real things of the child's everyday existence. The article outlines the essentials of the four-year rotation plan, by which attention is devoted in turn to growing things, malting things of wood, paper and cement, living things, and matters affecting the soil, home and community. Visual Means in Elementary Science Teaching "All fields belong to us, and all is grist for our experimental science mill," declares the Supervisor of Elementary Science in the State Teachers' College at San Francisco — and proceeds to outline the possibilities of film, slide and picture, model, field work and exhibit. Published monthly by the Society for Visual Education, Inc. 806 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago 130 West 46th Street, New York