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Sensible Schooling

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               The world was at a crossroads when three influential educators at the University of Wisconsin decided to do their part to promote progress in education. World War 2 had ended in Europe only months before and was still drawing to a close in Japan when the first edition of See and Hear: The Journal of Audio-Visual Education was published.
               These educators aimed to integrate lessons learned from training soldiers during the war into classrooms across America. Students could learn more in schools, they claimed, when they used both their eyes and their ears to learn, just as they did outside the classroom.  They knew that engaging all of a student’s senses was the most sensible approach.
               But would their campaign to bring Audio-Visual education into classrooms help students? Would teachers draw on films like “The Peace Builder” or “Beginning Geography- Foundation for International Understanding". Or, would the hope and optimism that accompanied soldiers home from World War II give way to rising fears of social decay, immorality and juvenile delinquency?
 

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