Consumer-Buying Objectives in Homemaking Courses in High Schools of the Southern Region (open access)

Consumer-Buying Objectives in Homemaking Courses in High Schools of the Southern Region

For the past few years the homemaking courses has shifted its emphasis from cooking and sewing skills to the solving of managerial problems of the individual and the family of today. Each person who is taking an active part in living is constantly purchasing and consuming goods and services and must realize that his welfare depends upon the relation between the satisfactions that he receives from the things he buys and the price that he pays for them. Since every one must purchase goods, the high school student needs to learn how to buy wisely. The executive committees of the homemaking divisions in the different states which are revising the courses of study realize that management of money from the consumer-buying view point is important and needs a place in meeting the needs and interests of the high school student of today. The problem in this study is to determine the adequacy of the objectives on consumer-buying in the homemaking courses in high schools of the Southern Region. This study is made for the purpose of determining the adequacy and extent of consumer-buying teaching objectives in homemaking education in the high schools of the Southern region. in order that way …
Date: June 1938
Creator: Wilson, Charles Aldredge, Mrs.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Interests of Children in the Sixth Grade and a Suggested Program of Work Based upon These Interests (open access)

A Survey of the Interests of Children in the Sixth Grade and a Suggested Program of Work Based upon These Interests

The dual purpose of this study is to survey the interests of boys and girls who are in the sixth grade and to suggest a program of school work based upon these interests. The writer presents the study with the hope that it will contribute to a better understanding of what children's interests are and the part they should play in planning the curriculum and complete school program.
Date: 1942
Creator: Dalton, Mary Roberta Payne
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey to Determine Current Practices and Procedures in Counseling in Residential Treatment Centers for Emotionally Disturbed Children (open access)

A Survey to Determine Current Practices and Procedures in Counseling in Residential Treatment Centers for Emotionally Disturbed Children

Since this is a survey to determine the current practices and procedures of counseling in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children, the problem of this study may be stated as follows: (1) to review related literature in the field of counseling and guidance in order to determine the best educational thought as to what constitutes a good counseling program; (2) by means of a survey in the form of a questionnaire, to determine what is actually being done in counseling work in established residential treatment centers for disturbed children; (3) to determine, from information received, good counseling work practices for treating emotionally disturbed children.
Date: 1958
Creator: Blair, William B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Restoration and Extension of Federal Forts in the Southwest from 1865 to 1885 (open access)

Restoration and Extension of Federal Forts in the Southwest from 1865 to 1885

This thesis is an attempt to portray the part the forts of the Southwest had in developing the Federal Indian Policy in that region from 1865 to 1885.
Date: August 1941
Creator: Bennett, Alice Bell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Practical Arts Course Content as Indicated by the Needs and Interests of Denton Junior High School Sixth Grade Boys (open access)

Practical Arts Course Content as Indicated by the Needs and Interests of Denton Junior High School Sixth Grade Boys

This study aimed to determine the proper content of a course of study in practical Arts as indicated by the needs and interests of sixth grade boys.
Date: August 1936
Creator: Wells, J. Haskin
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Function of Mental Hygiene in the Curriculum of the Elementary School (open access)

The Function of Mental Hygiene in the Curriculum of the Elementary School

The problem of this investigation is to determine the part that mental hygiene should and could assume in promoting the general efficiency of the educational program in the elementary grades.
Date: 1942
Creator: Brashears, Willie Pearl
System: The UNT Digital Library