A Comparative Study of Corporation Schools as to Their Organization, Administration, and Methods of Instruction |
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Page 26 - A corporation school as defined for this study is a school maintained by a business concern, quite independently of outside control, for the purpose of fitting its new employees for efficient service, or for the further training of its older employees to fit them for positions of greater responsibility, as foremen, executives, or technical experts.
Page 27 - The object is to aid corporations in the education of their employees. (1) By providing a forum for the interchange of ideas. (2) By collecting, and making available, data as to successful and unsuccessful plans in educating employees.
Page 107 - In one year, the continuation school brought back into school 5,000 young people under sixteen years of age, who had left school to work. Dr. George Myers,31 who has made a special study of vocational education in Germany, concludes that any satisfactory solution of the problem of vocational education must include some form of cooperative school work, and that the continuation school idea is growing in Prussia. Supt. John D. Shoop, of the Chicago schools emphasizes the fact that vocational education...
Page 26 - Following the terminology used by this association, a corporation school may be defined as "any school maintained by a business concern, quite independently of outside control, for the purpose of fitting ita new employees for efficient service, or for the further training of its older employees to fit them for positions of greater responsibility, as foremen, executives, or technical experts.
Page 23 - ... and useful articles. The German people as a whole realize the advantages of the handwork type of industry, and with traditional conservatism have opposed the rising prominence of factories and are striving to keep all industries possible in the fold of handwork. In this effort they not only show that "in Germany, as in no other country the people have been unwilling to break with their past...
Page 99 - The first signifies not only more numerous and more varied points of shared common interest, but greater reliance upon the recognition of mutual interests as a factor in social control. The second means not only freer interaction between social groups ... but change in social habit — its continuous readjustment through meeting the new situations produced by varied intercourse.
Page 78 - followup " work In the stores. Textiles : Fibers — wool, silk, cotton, linen. Manufacture. Fabrics. Commercial geography. Color and design : Recognition of color tones. Color combinations. Appropriate use of colors. Principles of design applied to dress and furnishings. Economics : Relation of capital and wages. Relation of expenditure to income. The spending of money. The saving of money. Arithmetic : Sale-slip practice and store system. Drill in addition and multiplication. Fractions. Percentage....
Page 29 - D. TYPE IV. COMPANY CONTINUATION SCHOOLS — DAY, EVENING, AND CORRESPONDENCE This type of school is marked by a somewhat broader educational outlook than are some of the other types, providing that a very considerable share of the student's time be given to general education instead of confining him to such work as promises' greater immediate efficiency in a particular position.
Page 78 - ... retail selling. Class conferences on important salesmanship subjects: Care of stock, approaching a customer, etc. Individual conferences with girls on points observed In teachers' "followup " work In the stores. Textiles : Fibers — wool, silk, cotton, linen. Manufacture. Fabrics. Commercial geography. Color and design : Recognition of color tones. Color combinations. Appropriate use of colors. Principles of design applied to dress and furnishings. Economics : Relation of capital and wages....