Eastern Washington University - Kinnikinick Yearbook (Cheney, WA)

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KiNNIKINICK 1933 DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING The Department of Teacher Training offers to stu- dents in the Normal course an opportunity to become Clark FRASIER acquainteci with the actual operation of a modern ele- mentary school. It demonstrates to them the adjust- ment between theory and practice, as well as the in- tegration necessary where divergent theories and diverse subject matter must be welded into a unified and coherent system of education. The preliminary groundwork is laid in the methods classes, where the student is taught to formulate the aims in the teaching of a given subject, and introduced to the devices best adapted to achieving those aims. Observation of teaching and con- tact with schoolroom routine then prepare the way for actual experience in giving instruction to children. Such training, while necessarily technological in its nature, also serves the broader purpose of giving the student an insight into the realities of childhood education and the sig- nificance of much that he has acquired elsewhere in his course. STAATS PETERSON FITZGCRALD I , NG PENCE DRYDEN BROWN MCGRATH

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1933 K INNIKINICK DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Julian Eugene Buchanan At no other period in the history of the world has a knowledge of the sci- ences been so necessary to the average man. Revolutions in the basic concepts of both physics and chemistry have given those fields of knowledge a new and significant relation to the life of man. and in a study of the minuter inter-rela- tionships between them and the biological sciences it is now presumed will be found the solution to the myriad puzzles of life and man ' s existence. Geography, likewise, has now advanced from a mere study of locations and names to a science which seeks to interpret man in terms of his physiographic environment, and to explain the interdependence of nations in the fields of economics. Mathe- matics, in turn, is the basis of all such scientific study. Consequently the work of the Department is vitally concerned with a field of knowledge fundamental in mankind ' s study of man himself.

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