Term Record

 

 

 

 

 

Thesaurus	Genre Terms
Term	Object teachers
Hierarchy	[Purpose of work]
SN	Use for generally illustrated 19th c. educational books for children, using objects and images of objects as the basis for teaching
UF
BT	Juvenile literature Textbooks Illustrated works
NT
RT	Instructional works Primers (Instructional books)
HN	Candidate Term, 200907
Warrant
Comments	Source of term: This term is used in scholarship about education and book history. This form/ genre term would take account of actual instances of this types of books (as opposed to scholarly books *about* this topic).  This is a scholarly area now increasingly being studied in both education and bibliography. (proposer)

 

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Proposed Term:

Object teachers

Thesaurus: 

Genre terms

Submitted by:

Jeff Barton, Cataloger, Cotsen Children's Library,

Rare Books Cataloging Team, Rare Books & Special Collections Department

submitter date: 5/30/08

submitter telephone: 609-258-3166

submitter institution: Princeton Univ Spec Colls (Cotsen Collection)

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Term record as found in AAT (mandatory):  Not found

 

Term record as found in LCSH (mandatory):

Objects in context --England.

Object-teaching.

Object lessons (LC Classification caption - LB1519)

Term record as found in GMGPC (mandatory):  Not found

Term record as found in GSAFD (mandatory):  Not found

               

Term record as found in MeSH (mandatory): 

                  

Term record as found in MIGFG (mandatory): 

    

Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2^nd edition (mandatory):  Not found

 

Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory): 

   

Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2^nd edition (optional): 

     

Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.:   

 

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Hierarchy:  Purpose of work

 

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Proposed SN: (from the proposer)

Use for generally illustrated 19th c. educational books for children, using objects and images of objects as the basis for teaching

Warrant (if necessary):

 

1) Manual of object-teaching : with illustrative lessons in methods and the Science of education / by N.A. Calkins. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1882.

excerpt:

Object Lessons and Object-teaching.

"Those processes of instruction which embrace the aims already described, and conform to the principles herein presented, and secure the results thus contemplated, may be called object-teaching. This system of using objects, and of treating subjects by its methods of teaching, develops the mental powers through a proper exercise of the appropriate senses, and leads to correct habits of gaining knowledge ; therefore, it will be seen that it is chiefly the manner and purpose of using objects, as a means of development and instruction, which determines whether the plan of proceeding may be called object-teaching, or not."

 

2) From the dissertation,

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"Articles on object teaching, or how to use real objects in teaching, the most popular Pestalozzian innovation, seemed to fall into four "styles": as used in England by the Mayos; as used in German, particularly Prussian, schools; as practiced in Pestalozzi's own school at Yverdon, Switzerland; and the mixed style. Lessons in the different styles are described, and purposes and advantages are discussed. In lessons on objects, appropriate questions by the teacher were asked to elicit thinking by the children about qualities, similarities and differences, etc., and learning names for what was observed. These lessons are strikingly similar to current curricula for young children that emphasize inductive cognitive development, or psycholinguistic visual modality remediation.

The picture system, or use of pictures in textbooks, was a controversial innovation. Arguments for and against this application of the visual modality in teaching are given in detail as found in the periodicals. Use of pictures in infant schools and other uses are described. Lists of some illustrated books for children, including those by Peter Parley, are given. Criteria for selection of pictures discussed in the periodicals include accuracy, detail, proportion, color, and affective considerations."

 

3)

Title: Everyday Object Book.

Published/Created: London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co.,

[1860-1895?] (Printed in Bavaria)

Subject(s):

Objects in context --England.

Object-teaching.

Picture books for children

Form/Genre: Juvenile literature --England.

Related name(s): Frederick Warne and Co., publisher.

Illustrations: Alternating full-page color and sepia-toned illustrations

of household, urban, and rural objects and children, incorporating text

labels.

 

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UF: 

 

Warrant (if necessary):

 

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BT:  Juvenile literature

BT:  Textbooks

 

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NT:

 

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RT: 

Instruction books

Instructional works

Primers (Instructional books)

Readers

 

 

Warrant (if necessary): 

 

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HN:

 

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Comments: 

Source of term: This term is used in scholarship about education and book history.

Comments: This form/ genre term would take account of actual instances of this types of books (as opposed to scholarly books *about* this topic).  This is a scholarly area now increasingly being studied in

both education and bibliography. (proposer)

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AAT [Getty’s Art & Architecture Thesaurus]

GMGPC [Library of Congress’s Thesaurus for Graphic Materials]

GSAFD [Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. (2nd ed.)]

LCSH [Library of Congress’s Subject Headings]

MeSH [National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings]

MIGFG [Library of Congress’s The Moving Image Genre-form Guide]