The Contributions of industrial arts to selected areas of education

Abstract

This yearbook on the contributions that industrial arts makes to selected areas of education is an effort to establish the role that this field plays in the contemporary school setting. The various chapters deal with specific topical areas that are of significance to education, the student, and the citizen in this latter part of the twentieth century. The concept of this yearbook centers on the idea that the range and variety of experiential activities in industrial arts can make important contributions to all students as well as to the enrichment of selected content or subject fields. This position is part of the larger concept that the nature of schooling as well as the nature of the individual are organismic in structure and not a separate series of units or parts to be dealt with in isolation...