Absentee Children: A Study of the Group Counseling Program in the New York City Board of Education, Bureau of Attendance September 1964 – June 1966
Abstract
Background of the Study. Group activities have always been an important part of the educational process. While it is true that the most important objectives in the educational process are to help the individual achieve self-direction, self-knowledge, and self-realization, it is also realized that these cannot be achieved in a cultural vacuum. Many important learning experiences may take place in a group setting, since it is the only way that they can be learned realistically.Since the decade of the forties, attention has been given to the value of human groups. By man’s very nature, he is a group "dweller.” This is in evidence through his basic group, the family. Man’s very important needs of acceptance and security are satisfied by way of this medium. Dorothea Spellman states "group experiences are an essential element in productive living for all persons.”
Subject Area
Educational psychology|Counseling Psychology
Recommended Citation
Purvis, Clarence Wilder, "Absentee Children: A Study of the Group Counseling Program in the New York City Board of Education, Bureau of Attendance September 1964 – June 1966" (1967). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189674.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189674
