Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday. Dec. 1, 1955
Faculty Members Write For Education Bulletin
Five faculty members have written articles published in the first 1955-56 issue of the University Bulletin of Education.
School program planning for the mentally handicapped is discussed in an article by Alfred H. Moore, assistant professor of education and director of special education.
He said special education for the mentally handicapped in Kansas public schools is a "young but growing" program. "The local school is confronted with many obstacles," he said. "However, the public school should strive to expand and improve its services."
Miss Helen Lohr, associate professor of home economics and head of the home economics teacher training program, wrote an article on homemaking in junior and senior high school.
She said areas which should be included in a broad program are food, clothing, housing, children, family relationships, health, and management of time, money, and energy.
A study of materials for retarded readers in grades four to eight was described by Robert W. Ridgway, assistant professor of education. Readers from Northeast Kansas schools were selected to determine readability, interest, and usefulness of selected materials.
"Evidence collected during the study indicates that the use of easy and interesting materials with retarded readers may result in improved attitudes toward reading." Mr. Ridway wrote. A similar study of materials for retarded readers in grades seven to twelve was conducted by Herbert I. Brunning, director of curriculum for the Shawnee-Mission District High Schools, Merriam.
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education wrote on graduate research in education. "The Graduate School of the University of Kansas has conferred graduate degrees on 1,517 persons who majored in education during the period 1888-1955," he said.
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of
education, wrote about Kansas high school students' participation in speech. Dr. Haugh said only a "small minority" of students took speech classes and a "somewhat larger group" participated in extra-curricular programs.
"It would be vise for administrators to re-examine their curricular offerings to see if it would be possible to expand this area of study," Dr. Haugh wrote.
Geological Survey Member Honored
Dr. Ada Swineford, a member of the State Geological Survey at the University, has been named permanent editor for the proceedings of the national clay conferences of the National Academy of Science-National Research Council of Washington, D.C.
Dr. Swineford's appointment begins with the 1955 conference held in October at Pennsylvania State University. She and Norman Plummer, also of the Kansas Geological Survey, were co-editors of the conference held in 1953.
Dr. Swineford has been with the State Geological Survey since 1942 and has been head of the petrography division since 1949. She has studied and written on Kansas volcanic ash, clays and shales of central Kansas, redbeds of south-central Kansas and rocks and minerals of other Kansas areas.
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