『ウイルソン・リーダー』の編纂者Marcius Willsonに関する研究

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The results of this research on how Marcius Willson would have generated his educational ideas to become the foundation of the Readers, according to time and incidents, show the following: (1) In boyhood, his ideas had been generated in his farmhouse life within a wonderful natural environment, with his father, a pious Christian, as the head of the family. (2) In his academy and college days, he had great opportunities to meet classmates or seniors who later became notable statesmen in America, and this motivated him to study the importance of debating or speaking experientially. (3) As a college teacher and the principal days of his alma mater, his ideas were generated as a teacher in actual school education. (4) In the latter part of the 1850s, after contracting with Harper & Bros. to write the Reader, he resided in New York City where he was able to get precious information about the Pestalozzi principle educational ideas and instruction, which had attracted great interest among educators.
2011-09-30