Psychology

Abstract

THIS book consists of seventeen articles written by “men who have been part and parcel of the movement for vocational education [in the United States] from its inception”. In 1914 Congress appointed the Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education, and in 1917 the Smith Hughes Act for Vocational Education became law. From a study of the past, and more especially the immediate past, present ‘ends in education’ are considered with an eye to the future. Education for the professions, agriculture, commerce, home economics, industry, pass in review, and questions of vocational guidance, rehabilitation of the disabled, vocational teacher training, and the attitude of employer, worker, and parent to the present working schemes, are dealt with by experts in their subject. The result is a valuable book for those wrestling with the problem of how best to bridge the gulf between school and work.

Objectives and Problems of Vocational Education.

Edited by Prof. Edwin A. Lee. (McGraw-Hill Vocational Texts.) Pp. viii + 451. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1928.) 15s. net.