Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free press , August 12, 1963 reverse psychology in teaching revolution by Heather Robertson a one woman revolution in teaching methods which is bring ing wonderful results is in Ful swing at the University of Manitoba summer school. Leader and chief agitator is dynamic psychologist and exper on child learning Christine Kris who is Busy putting her theories into operation in a six week course in developmental psychology. What she preaches and practises in her classes is a system of education in which the students bring the answers to the teacher a total reversal says or Kris of the Normal educational practice in North America. In her lectures she says she gives her students Basic guid Ance and a list of primary sources where they can go for information. Then she gives a written assignment which the students must turn in the follow ing week. A the investigation and experimentation is clone by the students themselves. If they run into trouble or. Kris is always available for advice and consultation. 70 projects every Ona of the 70 students in or. Kris class is working on a different project. At the end of the course she says she will have 420 different writ ten assignments on. 70 different Fields of investigation. Copies of the projects Are passed around the class for other students to read. At the end of the session the students will write a take Home examination. In order to answer the questions they will have to seek out numerous reference works and be up to Date on Al the information gathered by to students during the summer. The final examination is on., the commencement of further Reading in the says d Kris. However she stresses. E excellent and efficient Unive. Sity Library is absolutely Neces sary if teaching is Goins to b carried on by this method. Scant references she said that she had Troub finding books on her particular aspect of child development ii the Winnipeg libraries. If on More donations for Universia libraries were so said. Students will cease to g to the Library if there is n her system of teaching is she says an Effort to get away from the North Amer ican vicious Circle where grades Lead to degrees and degrees to economic gain so that the primary of Stu dents is to beat the system of arbitrary Grade require i want to put the Joy of per Sonal discovery Back into Edu cation which is now neglected or actively examinations today test the student s ability to grasp what the writer of the text was mean ing when he wrote that particular she said. Indian interest As part of her study of the psychological and physical development of children. Or. Kris has taken a particular interest in the Indian societies of Manitoba since she arrived As a guest lecturer at the summer school. She wants to discover she says whether different occupations so Cial standards and cultural values have any effect on a child s learn ing ability. Her students Are also studying Hutt Erite ukrainian and icelandic communities. There is a tremendous Gap she says Between the Indian and White communities which has not yet been bridged. Indian parents often Don t understand what the White teacher is trying to she says and Many Don t appreciate the value of an education for their Chil often they want to keep their children on the Reserve even if they Are Bright enough to go away for further training and the children usually want to stay. For those that do want to go on she says there is remarkably Little Opportunity for Advance ment after Grade eight and Stu dents revert Back to their old ways. Or. Kris suggested that so Cial workers living permanently on the reserves could help Mutual adjustment and re education. Factories and industries near reserves that trained Indian boys and girls in a skilled Trade would also be extremely valuable she said. We need to train leaders among the she said particularly Indian students who go away for teacher training and return to teach their own regard for animals one of the most remarkable things she discovered during her two Day visit this month to the Sandy Bay Salteau band on the West Shore of Lake Manitoba was the Indian s tremendous love and regard for wild animals. The Indian must have the right to maintain Contact with wild animal she said. Everyone wants to Hunt and still one of the greatest hurts and most frequent topics of conversation in the group she said was the conversion of the tribe s traditional Hunting grounds into Riding Mountain National Park 30 years ago. She was impressed too she said by the indians great love of the land and need for private property which is one reason they stay so close to Reserve when the summer school course is or. Kris will go to fort Churchill and Northern Manitoba to investigate research facilities or. Christine Kris uses reverse psychology for the study of the ways in which indians and eskimos have acclimatized themselves to thet cold or. Kris first began study in the Field of child development and learning in 1945 when she became a teacher of special children by the project method in great Bri Tain. The techniques she Learned then Are the same she uses now she says. Born in Austria into a family with four practising psycho analysts she took her . Honors in psychology from the University of London. Then began years of i Post graduate work in universities i and technical institutes across the United states in Fields ranging from anthropology to physiology to ism computer operation. Her fast analysis of canadians children Are brought up to be More polite than Ameri can children still have a definite special place in Cana Dian society she said based to a certain extent on the old philosophy that children should be seen and not heard. As Well As teaching or. Kris is doing research for the . Government. Lieutenant governor Errick f. Willis and mrs. Willis entertained sunday at government House in Honor of delegates and their wives attending the Cana Dian pharmaceutical annual convention pouring were mrs j. R. Mur Ray mrs. J. W. Richardson mrs. Bruce t. Moir and mrs. Roy e. Schatz of Toronto. Assisting were mrs. T. W. Laid Law mrs. M. B. Perrin mrs. B. A. Lloyd mrs. R. N. Pryde mrs. R. N. Skinner mrs. J. C. Mcmil Lan mrs. A. S. Bell mrs. A. S. Blumm mrs. W. E. Norton and miss Anna Jane Willis. Aides de Camp were . . Avery and mrs. W. E. Nor ton. Or. And mrs. Don Tourand and family will arrive Friday by air from Bromley Kent England and will make their Home Here. 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