Date of Award
6-1933
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor
Ralph A. Fritz
Keywords
History, Study, teaching, Secondary
Abstract
The purpose of this study to get some measure of the value or utility of world history as taught in typical high schools in helping a pupil gain a better understanding of present-day economic and political problems.
A further purpose of this study is to check the extent to which schools attain the third general objective of history and social science as given in the Kansas Course of Study. The objectives for history and social science as given in the Kansas Course of Study are quoted below.1
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3. To lead to an understanding of the more important problems which confront the citizen to-day, and to create in the pupil, through habits of thinking, study and analysis, the correct attitude and the facility necessary in the solution of problems that he must confront as an adult citizen.
[Taken from Chapter 1]
Recommended Citation
Thomson, Charles Theodore, "Does world history help a ninth grade pupil understand and appreciate present-day economic and political problems?" (1933). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 650.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/650
