Leadership in Social Education: A Guide to In-Service Education for Teachers Report, 1946

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Leadership in social education: a guide to in-service education for teachers
Dates:
1946
Creators:
Kefauver, Grayson Neikirk
Abstract:
This report, written by Kefauver and Edward Krug, is the result of a five-year study of the theory and practice of social education, involving 112 teachers and 31 administrators from 10 school systems in the western United States. The study was undertaken by the Stanford Social Education Investigation, which was established in January 1939. Workshops were held in the summers of 1939-42 and during school years participants carried out experimental projects.
Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Leadership in Social Education: A Guide to In-Service Education for Teachers Report (SC0787). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This report, written by Kefauver and Edward Krug, is the result of a five-year study of the theory and practice of social education, involving 112 teachers and 31 administrators from 10 school systems in the western United States. The study was undertaken by the Stanford Social Education Investigation, which was established in January 1939. Workshops were held in the summers of 1939-42 and during school years participants carried out experimental projects.

Biographical / historical:

Grayson Neikirk Kefauver (1900-1946) was an educator, Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University, and United States Representative on the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Edward Krug (1911-1979) received a Ph.D from Stanford in 1941 and was assistant professor there until 1943.

Acquisition information:
Administrative transfer from the School of Education, 2005.
Physical location:
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
University Archives staff
Date Encoded:
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Preferred citation:

Leadership in Social Education: A Guide to In-Service Education for Teachers Report (SC0787). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022