Date of Award

7-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

George E. Vander Beke

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

In using the term "activity", I am referring to pupil activity, the self-activity of the child. Brunkes claims that it is a necessary element in obvious. Geography is a living, growing subject. In it the child studies about the activities of the people of the world. The subject itself is active. The old formal question-answer method, the inflexible outline method do not bring the required results. Furthermore, it is common knowledge in the realm of pedagogy that learning is an active process. The most effective learning takes place when the child is engaged in some purposeful activity. In other words, the learner learns by doing. This activity need not necessarily be of the motor type. It may be, and will most frequently be mental activity. The unit plan, the problem method, the project, dramatization, and many other methods and devices are active learning processes. Many courses of study have come to recognize this principle of activity.and the necessity for it.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of' Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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