Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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The Kindergar1en's genius al art produces another masterpiece as a young admirer awoiis the final resulfs. His painting will soon loin 'hose of his fellow classmates' on the classroom gallery wall. Dr. Wegener clemonsfrates 'he effects of conditioning on habil formation lo his Psychology of Learning class. While mice lrapped in o maze are ihe subiecfs of the experiment 1 ,..., . ,, 8 vffs F se gk 2'

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Student teacher, Martha Mishler, subjects her theory of learning to the rigorous unpredictability of the elementory school closs- room and its rapidly developing pupils. College Te t and ifth Grade Mind Continuous positive revision took place in Teacher Education this year. Combining the scholastic and professional requirements with pre-teaching classroom acquaintance, the divi- sion offered prospective instructors a well con- structed curriculum. One of the revised phases of the teaching program was the junior field experience. In this project classroom pupils and problems became real as students visited local public schools. This year the experience included both sec- ondary and elementary education. Elementary education students visited several grades and secondary education majors were introduced to both junior and senior high levels. As well as aiding undergraduates to decide upon their fu- ture grade level and subject, Held work pro- vided' practical laboratories for observing text- book theory along with other approaches to teaching. Since September 1963, education students included additional science and mathematics courses in their schedules. The extra courses are taken in agreement with an Indiana State School bill passed last year.

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Sensiti e to Ill of the Total an A student nurse shares in many rich and rewarding experi- ences. One of them is work in obstetrics. Demonstrating the basic principles in sterile technique, Pam Miller prepares for the delivery. Concem for the nurse's contribution to na- tional mental health guided new emphasis in the School of Nursing. A study group of nursing personnel con- tinued to explore ways to integrate psychiatric concepts into Goshen's program. The research, sponsored by a Mental Health Grant from the Institutes of Health, received co-operation from Oaklawn Psychiatric Center and Norman Beat- ty Hospital. A summer workshop, Patients are Interest- ing People, will be available on campus this summer. The underlying resolution will be to discover how patient-care improvement can be govemed by the social science perspective. This perspective is that the understanding of pa- tients must be based on cultural and social influences which affect behavior. The workshops should enable nurses to cope with mentally ill persons more effectively than in the past. Dr. Esther L. Brown, renown social anthropologist from the Russell Sage Founda- tion will be resource person for the summer project. Eight women enrolled in a new nursing pro- gram in September, 1963. The program ad- mitted graduate nurses from non-baccalaureate schools with advanced standing and will grant the B.S. in Nursing upon graduation. Port of the nurse's routine after the delivery is to apply some T.L.C. to this and similar squalling bundles of ioy before the father takes his first, proud look. 28