Date of Award
7-1936
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Education
First Advisor
L. C. Heckert
Keywords
Blind, Education, Science, Study, teaching.
Abstract
In recent years there has been a greater degree of recognition of science as an important hugh school study for blind students. In an effort to find more exactly the status of science in its emohasis in schools for the blind, a questionnaire was sent to forty-four schools, and twenty nine replies were recieved. The replies show that most of the high schools offer one or more years of science, the most common being general science, physics, the order of the divisions according to the amount of time allotted is mechanics avarage seven in size. Ten is the average limit for efficient work.
In the teaching of general acience and physics to the blind there are difficulties of technique in certain topics that are caused by the inability of the students to see. If the pupil has no memory of things in terms of visual imagery the problem is further complicated. By experiment over a nine perios as a teacher of science in a school for the blind the writer has found effective techniques for many of the topics usually considered difficult to present effectively to blind students.
It has been found that the tendency to verbalistic learning can be largely avoided by overcoming the sensory deficiencies through the use of models and samples. A laboratory with ample equipment is especially important. Classes must be small. Pupils having considerable vison progress better in classes separated from the totally blind. Since the textbook now in use were written for seeing pupils and later printed in Braille for the use of the blind, they are not satisfactory.
Recommended Citation
Hoover, William Clare, "The technique of science instruction of visually handicapped students" (1936). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 791.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/791
