One-half of surveyed normal schools offered no hygiene instruction beyond physiology and incidental treatment in other courses¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1914: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Exactly one-half of the 84 responding normal schools offered no hygiene courses separate from physiology or incidental coverage in other courses. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Questionnaire survey of normal schools; returns from 84 of 191 addressed. The report states that "Exactly one-half of the 84 schools heard from offer no hygiene courses" separate from physiology, and nine schools give no physiology at all.

"Exactly one-half of the 84 schools heard from offer no hygiene courses aside from the hygiene given with physiology or incidentally in courses on school management, methods of classes, psychology, etc."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The best planned hygiene instruction occurred in normal schools devoting considerable time to the sciences — related
• Normal schools gave comparatively little attention to sex hygiene and rarely used nature study and biology as an approach to it — related
• Separate personal and school hygiene courses were recently introduced and remained few, short, and slowly adopted — related
• Medical inspection was being rapidly adopted by normal schools, but very few trained student teachers to observe or test children