Vocational Guidance for Girls

Vocational Guidance for Girls

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Title: Vocational Guidance for Girls
Author: Marguerite Stockman Dickson
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+-------------------------------------------------------+ | | | OTHER VOCATIONAL | | GUIDANCE BOOKS | | | | J. ADAMS PUFFER, Editor | | | | _VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE--THE TEACHER AS A COUNSELOR_ | | By J. Adams Puffer | | | | A VOCATIONAL READER | | By C. Park Pressey | | | | VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR THE PROFESSIONS | | By Edwin Tenney Brewster | | | +-------------------------------------------------------+

"Vocational guidance seeks the largest realization of the possibilities of every child and youth, measured in terms of worthy service."
[Illustration: Photograph by Brown Bros. CAMP FIRE GIRLS The lessons of patriotism, kindness, and industry taught by the Camp Fire Girls' organization make it a power for good]

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLS
by
MARGUERITE STOCKMAN DICKSON
Author of From the Old World to the New, _A Hundred Years of Warfare. 1689-1789_, Stories of Camp and Trail, Pioneers and Patriots in American History Rand Mcnally & Company Chicago New York
1919

THE CONTENTS
PAGE A Foreword ix

PART I. PRESENT-DAY IDEALS OF WOMANHOOD

CHAPTER I.
WOMAN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY 3
II. THE IDEAL HOME 18
III. ESTABLISHING A HOME 27
IV. RUNNING THE DOMESTIC MACHINERY 49

PART II. GUIDING GIRLS TOWARD THE IDEAL
V. THE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES INVOLVED 75
VI. TRAINING THE LITTLE CHILD 86
VII. TEACHING THE MECHANICS OF HOUSEKEEPING 102
VIII. THE GIRL'S INNER LIFE 122
IX. THE ADOLESCENT GIRL 130
X. THE GIRL'S WORK 151
XI. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS 163
XII. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--VOCATIONS AS AFFECTING HOMEMAKING 194
XIII. THE GIRL'S WORK (Continued)--VOCATIONS DETERMINED BY TRAINING 203
XIV. MARRIAGE 218
Suggested Readings 241
The Index 243

A LIST OF THE PORTRAITS
PAGE LOUISA M. ALCOTT 221
RUTH MCENERY STUART 223
LOUISE HOMER AND HER FAMILY 225
MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON 227
COLONEL AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY 229
JULIA WARD HOWE AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER 231
CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE 233
ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 235
AMELIA E. BARR 237

A FOREWORD
Fortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the vocational guidance of girls. Mrs. Dickson has the all-round life experiences which give her the kind of training needed for a broad and sympathetic approach to the delicate, intricate, and complex problems of woman's life in the swiftly changing social and industrial world.
Mrs. Dickson was a teacher for seven years in the grades in the city of New York. She then became the partner of a superintendent of schools in the business of making a home. In these early homemaking years there came from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a series of historical books for the grades which have placed her among the leading educational writers of the country. During the long sickness of her husband she filled for a while two administrative positions--homemaker and superintendent of schools.
Her three children are now in high school and are beginning to plan for their own life work. With the broad training of homemaker, wife, mother, teacher, writer, and administrator, Mrs. Dickson has the combination of experiences to enable her to introduce teachers and mothers to the very difficult problems of planning wisely big life careers for our girls.
The book is so plainly and guardedly written that it can also be used as a textbook for the girls themselves in connection with civic and vocational courses. The only difficulty with the book for a text is that it is so attractively written on such vital problems that the student will not stop reading at the end of the lesson.
J. ADAMS PUFFER

"Vocational guidance has for its ideal the granting to every individual of the chance to attain his highest efficiency under the best conditions it is humanly possible to provide."

PART I
PRESENT-DAY IDEALS OF WOMANHOOD

"How to preserve to the individual his right to aspire, to make of himself what he will, and at the same time find himself early, accurately, and with certainty, is the problem of vocational guidance."

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLS

CHAPTER I
WOMAN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY
Any scheme of education must be built upon answers to two basic questions: first, What do we desire those being educated to become? second, How shall we proceed to make them into that which we desire them to be?
In our answers to these questions, plans for education fall naturally into two great divisions. One concerns itself with ideals; the other, with methods.