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In this article Dr. Rubinow declares that vocational guidance—wise guidance toward a proper vocation, which represents the most potent single influence in each individual life—is the most important function of a college. He also says that it is perhaps the most neglected function—something that isn't being done to any appreciable extent. At any rate, in his close acquaintance with hundreds of students attending college in all parts of the country, he hasn't yet found one who seemed ever to have heard of college guidance or personnel work. When we asked Dr. Rubinow to write about guidance more or less from the parents' point of view, we did not intend to start a debate; but here he says that The Colleges Don't, while Dr. Cowdery in the succeeding article says, The Colleges Do, and tells how. Perhaps they are both right. Perhaps college students receive more actual guidance than they themselves realize, and perhaps guidance (or personnel work) is not sufficiently established in colleges to affect more than a very small percentage of the students. A great deal is being done, as Dr. Cowdery shows; but not nearly enough, as Dr. Rubinow and Dr. Cowdery would

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00153.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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The President of the American College Personnel Association here gives us a general survey of personnel work in colleges—its importance, its scope, and its trends. He employs a broad definition, and points out that not all the personnel work that is being done is called by that name. In conclusion he says that ideally the whole college or university is permeated with the idea and spirit and engaged in the practice of personnel work, and that all the staff members, from the president down, are personnel workers. This article is prefatory to others dealing with particular phases of the subject. One of these—relating to vocational try‐outs at Radcliffe—will be published in the January issue of this m

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00154.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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The facts and interpretations contained in this article are based upon a study supported under grants from the Commonwealth Fund and the Carnegie Corporation. A complete report will be published under the title, “The Prediction of Vocational Success.” The counselors and others who attended the Northeastern Regional Conference on Vocational Guidance a few weeks ago heard Irving Lorge speak on the principal findings and conclusions of what is often briefly called the Thorndike Ten‐Year Study, with which he has been closely associated. Those who did not hear Dr. Lorge's interesting and significant presentation will want to read the following article by Professor Thorndike, who directed the study; those who did will be glad to have a summary report in print.Dr. Thorndike says that, on the basis of such facts as were obtained from school records and test scores about boys and girls at age 14, their educational careers were predictable with great accuracy; but that there was little indication, as proved in the follow‐up, as to what their vocational futures would be. Apparently we know in part, and we prophesy in part; and now we are learning more about what we can and cannot predict by better methods than guessing—if indeed, in some matters, these methods are better! Dr. Thorndike's study must undoubtedly be ranked high in the annals of research, and we are pleased and proud to present this contribution to our columns and to the literature of vocational and educational

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00155.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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Following is an editorial which appeared in the September number ofTheClearingHouse,correctly described on the title page as “A journal for progressive junior and senior high‐school people.” the editorial was called “Implications of the New Deal for Schools,” and signed with the initials “J. C. D.” We asked and received permission to reprint it, a

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00156.x

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年代:1933

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There is the social, or socio‐economic, problem of unemployment. This problem, as it affects individuals, is not merely the problem of losing a job and finding or trying to find another. It cuts deep into the emotional life, threatens the disintegration of personality, and thus presents a problem of mental hygiene. Instinctive fear gets in its deadly licks. The sense of security is weakened, the sense of inferiority is strengthened. Accustomed activities giving opportunity for self‐assertion and self‐expression are cut off, and the underlying “drives” are blocked or diverted. Neurotic habits and attitudes may develop, and the individual, apart from his mental discomfort, may become unable to function at his normal capacity.In this article the author, understandingly and sympathetically, writes of these dangers to personality and character, explains their mechanisms, workings, and effects, and tells how they may be avoided or overcome. Chief among the means of keeping mentally fit and healthy, during the ordeal of unemployment, is knowledge—particularly self‐knowledge, but also knowledge of economic processes and vocational opportunities. How this knowledge may be used in banishing fear and preserving or regaining self‐confidence and self‐respect is described with many illustrations from actual experiences known to the author. The part played, in this application of intelligence to the personal problem of morale, not only by redirection of instinctive motivations but by loyalty to conscious life‐goals and ideals, is shown by illuminating and

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00157.x

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年代:1933

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Intelligent action in any field calls for knowledge of the limitations of the instruments used and for evaluation of results. The engineer, the physician, and the educator, all recognize this need and have their various ways of checking up on the effectiveness of what they do—before the building falls, or the patient dies, or the pupil leaves school. Of major significance to the guidance movement is the increasing attention given to evaluation. Miss Lincoln confirms the widespread opinion of her leadership by being one of the first working counselors to measure objectively the effectiveness of her own work in the teaching of occupations.Tests of vocational and educational information were given to experimental groups of ninth‐grade pupils before and after a semester course in occupations. The same tests were given at the same time to a control group. While the latter group made some gain in occupational information during the period, it was not so large as that of the instructed groups, and the results indicate further, to quote Miss Lincoln, that achievement in occupations classes “tends to increase with the amount of instruction in such cla

ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00158.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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When Professor Tugwell's book on “The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts” appeared a few months ago, the editors (including the staff of the National Occupational Conference) were strongly impressed by what seemed to them a most significant contribution to the literature of socio‐economic problems. Some of the things that the author had to say seemed also to have a very direct and important bearing on problems of vocational guidance and occupational adjustment. We asked John Dewey to review the book, and we judge from the letter accompanying his manuscript that he wishes he had read it earlier and taken more time (we would gladly have granted the space) for discussing its rich contents. But he does give us one of his most forceful, suggestive and trenchant criticisms.We are also presenting to our readers a series of excerpts from the book itself, having received permission from the author and the publi

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DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00159.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00160.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00161.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

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ISSN:2164-5833    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1933.tb00162.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1933

数据来源: WILEY