The sixth-grade history course of the Committee of Eight is permeated with adult conceptions, raising unanswered questions about children's impressions¶

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q1 i? The Committee of Eight's sixth-grade history course, though seemingly ideal to a mature mind, raises significant unanswered questions about whether children can acquire the intended impressions. → Clayton C. Kohl 1911

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Clayton C. Kohl 1911¶

Clayton C. Kohl. (1911). Needed Research in Method. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Needed+Research+in+Method%22+Kohl

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Illustrative analysis of the Committee of Eight's report on The Study of History in the Elementary Schools. The author quotes the committee's aims and then poses a series of unanswered questions, concluding that "the whole course is permeated with adult conceptions and points of view." No data are collected; this is the author's critical illustration.

"Can a sixth grade boy or girl acquire any impressions, vague or otherwise, of the march of progress or of world movements ? If so, what kind of impressions? Does chronological sequence have any meaning to a child of twelve?"

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