Earl barnes biography

In , Earl Barnes became head of the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the 21 original departments at the fledgling Leland Stanford University, now called Stanford. He had five students enrolled in his major.

Earl Walter Barnes was born

He established a practice school for child study at Stanford in Barnes became best known in his role as teacher educator, as a contributor to the child study movement, a movement that occurred around the turn of the 20 th century. During this time teachers and researchers collaborated in the study of children's development. Barnes was a strong advocate of the movement, lecturing in nearly every city in California on topics related to child study.

He wrote several volumes on child-study topics that contained the results of his and others' studies of children. He also lectured throughout the US and England, working or organize new child study groups. In , the second year of the National Education Associations division of Child Study, Barnes served as its president. During the school year of , the Oakland Public Schools reported that teachers were actively engaged in studies organized by Barnes.

He first lectured to the teachers, outlining the subject, and then he distributed syllabi that they were instructed to fill out. The teachers then responded the syllabi and sent the papers back to Barnes. He and his students worked over the material, met with the teachers again, and discussed the results. Data collected over a period of time included: 37, definitions given by children in response to Binet intelligence test items, children's drawings, papers on the historical sense of children, papers on children's rights, 1, compositions on heaven and hell, 4, papers describing punishment, on observations, 3, comparisons of horse and cow, 5, papers on inference, 3, descriptions of children' ambitions, 1, tests on poor spellers, 1, color tests, 2, compositions on fear Barnes, Child-study as we understand it is not a pure science at all.