ENGLISH JOURNAL THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH EDITORIAL BOARD W. WILBUR HATFIELD Associate Editor EDWIN L. MILLER, Northwestern High School. Detroit, Michigan New York FRED NEWTON Scort, University of Michigan ELMER W. SMITH, Colgate University CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS, Cleveland School of Education VOLUME VIN JANUARY-DECEMBER 1919 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS The principal of one of our successful normal colleges means two things when he speaks of the socialization of the English work. He means the socializing of the content of the work in composition, grammar, and literature and the socializing of the procedure in the classroom. He means (1) the fitting of the subject-matter of the English work closely into the present-day thoughts and lives of the students—the relating of the English work closely to the community life, and (2) the conduct of the recitation largely by the students themselves, with the teacher as guide the conduct of the recitation by a pupil as a member of an active social group. It would be folly to substitute devices for a principle or paraphernalia for an attitude, but it may not be futile to glance at certain simple illustrations of social activities in classroom procedure. Of course these are given only as illustrations. Progressive schools of the country, north, west, east, and south, can offer other kinds of illustrations of classroom social activities. As part of the student activity of the classroom, it is common for teachers to have a secretary's report of the preceding meeting read as the first number on the program at each meeting. The following report may give a partial idea of the range of student activity. In the report, the purpose of the instructor to get the students roused to personal activity while he remains in the background as ENGLISH JOURNAL THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH EDITORIAL BOARD W. WILBUR HATFIELD Associate Editor EDWIN L. MILLER, Northwestern High School. PERCY H. BOYNTON, University of Chicago Detroit, Michigan EMMA J. BRECK, Oakland (Cal.) High School FREDERICK B. ROBINSON, College of the City of JOHN M. CLAPP, New York City New York BENJAMIN A. HEYDRICK, High School of Com FRED NEWTON Scott, University of Michigan merce, New York EDWIN M. HOPKINS, University of Kansas ELMER W. SMITH, Colgate University CORNELIA STEKETEE HULST, Grand Rapids, CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS, Cleveland School of Michigan Education |
