ADVENTURES WITH UNDERGRADUATE IN THEIR EDUCATION FOR MARRIAGE.

Morgan, William H.

This article focuses on some of the principal considerations which the author believes enter into any educational program of students for marriage and which he has sought to incorporate in a class on marriage for men and women at the University of Iowa. For each topic the following sequence of events has been carried through by the author as a teacher with the class as a whole: (1) assignment of questions and selected readings; (2) individual weekly reading reports related to the preliminary preparation; (3) group discussions; (4) a meeting of the class as a whole for a general discussion under the leadership of the instructor or a lecture by him or by one of the cooperating specialists. Sometimes the discussion group hour and the one which follows have been devoted to a symposium or a panel discussion; sometimes they have been used by an authority to discuss some particular problem. The class was broken up into groups of fourteen or fifteen members each, including men and women. With the exception of certain questions which did not lend themselves to group discussion, such as sexual adjustments in marriage, the first half of the weekly two-hour period has generally been devoted to group meetings.

IOWA City (Iowa); IOWA; UNITED States; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL programs; DISCUSSION; COLLEGE students; UNIVERSITY of Iowa

Social Forces, 1942, Vol 21, Issue 1, p82

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Academic Journal

10.2307/2570436