March 1950
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EDUCATION FOR LIFE NEEDS
What Are
Class
Life
N e c > d s • Social
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Working to learn
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A Community
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Journal of T he Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, N E A
Educational Leadership.
Journal of the Anodation for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, NEA
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PAUL GUM, chairman, Assoc. Prof, of Ed., U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
J. CkdL PARKER, Assoc. Prof, of Ed., U. of California, Berkeley.
HENRT HARAP, Assoc. Dir., Div. of Surveys and Field Studies, George
Peabody Coll., Nashville, Term.
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DOBA S. SUPPER, Asst Prof, of Ed., F.S.U., Tallahassee, Fla.
GLADYS POTTER, ex officio, President, Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development, NEA.
Editor
AKNO A. BELLACX
Executive Secretary, Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, NEA
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ELKANOH WARBRTTTON
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Educational Leadership
MARCH 1950
IN THIS ISSUE
Voi.UMF. VII
Education for Life Needs
Nl'MBF.R 6
IN APRIL
Supervision Today—al
ways a popular theme
with readers of Educa
tional Leadership, i n
cludes in
the
April
maga/.inc
articles on:
changing concepts of ed
ucational Leadership, intenisitation
programs,
conversion of teachers
trained in the secondary
field for work in elemen
tary grades, the kinds of
help teachers want, inservice
programs,
re
search in elementary read
ing programs, and needed
research in curriculum
development.
The authors are:
Charles Boye and associ
ates, Ruth Cunrtingham,
Stanley Applcgatc, Paul
ine Hilliard, Helen Buckley, H.
I,.
Caswell,
George Ebcy, Alice Miel,
Vcrnon Replogle, John
Goodlad, Mary Alice
Mitchcll, and Catharine
Hultsch.
"Letters from Abroad,"
a monthly feature, in
April will be an article
from Madame Helenc
Brule, a French educator
well known to our read-
What Are Life Needs?
Individual and
Community Needs. ..... . Harry Bard. .............
The School and Life Needs./. Paul Leonard. . .......
The Essentials
of Good Living. ........ . Henry Harap. ...........
Progress in
Life Adjustment Education. /. Dan Hull.............
Character Education
in the Public Schools..... r. T. Thayer............
354
356
358
359
366
Social Class and
the Curriculum. ........... C elia Barns Stendler. . ... 371
Working to Learn. ........... Milton J. Gold. ......... 375
Conflict in the
Minds of Men. ........... .Kathleen Kehoe. ......... 380
The School's Responsibilities
for Mental Health......... G eorge S. Stevenson. . ... 384
A Community Organizes
to Help Itself............. Joseph B. Gucky
Herbert Corey. ......... 388
Students Help Plan
a Life Adjustment Program. R uth Irene Hoffman. . ... 393
A Cooperative Study
at Indian Knoll............. E lisabeth M. Bailey
Nell Winn McGlothlin . ..398
Schools Build
for Family Life. ........... Katharine WhitesideTaylor. . . 403
Consumer Education:
Do Students Need It?. .... . Gladys Bahr............ 4 11
Departments
The Listening Post..........
The Importance of People. ...
Curriculum Research........
Letters from Abroad. ........
The Curriculum
Commentator .............
Fred T. H'ilhelms......
William Van Til. ........
Hilda Taba. ............
G ertrude H. Fitzteater. . .
4 18
420
423
427
William H. Burton....... 430
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