How to Study and Teaching How to Study (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Practical Strategies for Student Learning, Teacher Training, Critical Thinking, and Self-Directed EducationBy Frank M. McMurry
Length9h 12m
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Frank M. McMurry's How to Study and Teaching How to Study is a formative work in progressive educational thought, concerned not merely with what pupils learn but with how they engage in purposeful, independent inquiry. McMurry analyzes the processes underlying effective study—attention, preparation, interpretation, organization, and application—and translates them into practical guidance for classroom instruction. Written in a lucid, analytical style that combines psychological observation with pedagogical prescription, the book reflects the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century movement away from rote recitation toward active learning, problem solving, and the cultivation of intellectual habits. Its sustained concern with method gives the volume both historical importance and continuing relevance to debates about student agency and the teaching of learning itself. McMurry was a prominent American educator and professor of education whose career was shaped by the emerging science of pedagogy and by the Herbartian emphasis on apperception, carefully sequenced instruction, and the moral as well as intellectual purposes of schooling. His experience in teacher education led him to address a persistent weakness in conventional classrooms: teachers often assigned study without explicitly showing students how to perform it. This book consequently joins his broader effort to make educational practice more reflective, systematic, and responsive to the learner. Readers interested in the history of education, progressive pedagogy, or the foundations of study skills will find this volume especially rewarding. It is valuable both as a historical document and as a provocative reminder that effective teaching includes making the processes of thinking visible. Educators, students of pedagogy, and anyone concerned with disciplined independent learning will appreciate McMurry's practical intelligence and enduring questions.
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GenreEducation and Learning
Length9 hrs 12 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Study and Teaching How to Study (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3PART I
4PART I
5CHAPTER I
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6CHAPTER II
7PART II
8CHAPTER III
9THE FITNESS OF CHILDREN IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO SELECT SPECIFIC. PURPOSES OF STUDY
10PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO FIND SPECIFIC AIMS FOR. THEIR STUDY
11CHAPTER IV
12THE ABILITY OF CHILDREN TO SUPPLEMENT THOUGHT
13PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO SUPPLEMENT THOUGHT
14CHAPTER V
15THE ABILITY OF CHILDREN TO GROUP FACTS INTO POINTS.
16PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO GROUP RELATED FACTS. INTO POINTS
17ABILITY OF CHILDREN TO NEGLECT UNIMPORTANT DETAILS
18PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO NEGLECT RELATIVELY. UNIMPORTANT DETAILS
19CHAPTER VI
20ABILITY OF CHILDREN TO JUDGE VALUES
21PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT. AMONG CHILDREN
22CHAPTER VII
23THE ABILITY OF CHILDREN TO MEMORIZE BY THINKING
24PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO MEMORIZE PROPERLY
25CHAPTER VIII
26CHILDREN'S CAPACITY TO INCLUDE THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE AS A FACTOR IN. THEIR STUDY
27PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN TO MAKE THE USING OF. KNOWLEDGE A PART OF THEIR STUDY
28CHAPTER IX.
29HOW THIS MATTER CONCERNS CHILDREN
30SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOB CULTIVATING A TENTATIVE ATTITUDE AMONG BOTH. CHILDREN AND MORE MATURE STUDENTS
31CHAPTER X
32PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOB PRESERVING AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUALITY
33PART III
34CHAPTER XI
35Memorable Quotes
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