Excerpt from The Organization and Teaching of Industrial and Homemaking Subjects in Part-Time or Continuation Schools There is a social, economic and educational justification for part-time or continuation schools of compulsory character operated for the benefit of employed youths. It remains the problem however for those engaged in the work of organizing and of teaching in such schools, to so plan instruction and instructional material that the purposes of this new educational institution may be realized. The courses which by common consent seem to be essential to the satisfactory accomplishment of the aims and objectives of the program are as follows: 1 industrial courses for boys 2 commercial courses for boys and girls 3 industrial courses for girls 4 homemaking courses for girls 5 agricultural courses 6 general continuation courses This monograph is concerned primarily with the organization and teaching of industrial and homemaking courses for girls. Occupational Courses for Girls The greatest contribution which the part-time school can make to the needs of employed girls is in terms of occupational training. It is obvious that such training should be closely related to the occupations in which girls and women are engaged. Consequently in the planning of courses due consideration must be given to (1) the immediate needs of employed girls from the standpoint of work and wage earning and (2) the future needs of such girls. That is, the instruction must be adjusted to help them in their present occupations and to guide them towards and prepare them for possible future occupations of desirable character. It is not difficult to determine the occupations in which girls and women are engaged. The United States Census report for 1920 shows the following to be the principal occupations in which they are engaged in the State of New York. The same sort of facts can be ascertained for any community by the making of a simple survey of the place, and for many communities may be obtained directly from the census report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.