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What the University of Kansas Is Doing and Planning in Visual Instruction

Jos. J. Weber

Head of Visual Instruction Division, University of Texas.

LAST fall we offered a course in visual instruction, and as a consequence we have a class of twenty-six students, mostly seniors and graduates, who are now helping to make history in this pioneer field. During the first few weeks, the instructor, in cooperation with the members of the class, worked out a general plan, which embodies the follow- ing main topics:

I. History and Growth of Visual Education

II. Types and Sources of Visual Aids

III. Principles of Visual Instruction

IV. Special Methods in Visual Instruction

V. Supervision of Visual Instruction

VI. Administrative Problems

VII. Picture Projection Technique

VIII. Research in Visual Education

Each one of these topics was then subdivided into its various phases and these in turn into their constituent elements. The result was a detailed outline, which serves us now as a basis for the course.

The work of the course is done by projects. At every class period, for a time, projects were suggested, discussed, evaluated, and undertaken definitely by one student or a committee of two or three. Some of the projects under- taken so far are:

A selected annotated bibliography

The history of visual aids

The use of hygiene films

A study on projector costs

Making habitat groups

Mounting and coloring slides

Visualizing the invisible

Binocular vision and the stereoscope

Emotional effects of moving pictures

Types and sources of visual aids

County administration of visual instruction

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