'HIS SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY of motion THIS pictures on democracy has been prepared by the Office of Education to assist teachers, school administrators, and community leaders in choosing and using visual aids in the teaching of democracy. The motion pictures recommended in this bibliography portray the historical development of democracy and the meaning of that democracy today. It is our hope that they will be widely used in American schools and colleges to help bring about in American youth a better understanding of and a greater faith in American democracy. On behalf of the Office of Education I wish to express appreciation to the members of the Advisory Committee of Visual Educators who assisted so much in the defini tion and preparation of this bibliography. Rall 7. Gingaby видову Deputy Commissioner of Education Background and Purpose The United States Office of Education, as part of a program to encourage and facilitate the teaching of democracy in American schools and colleges, initiated in May 1948 a project calling for the preparation, for subsequent publication, of a selective bibliography of visual aids on democracy. Such a bibliography, carefully prepared and annotated, should be extremely useful to teachers, school administrators, and community leaders. Advisory Committee In undertaking the preparation of this bibliography, the Office of Education requested the advice and judgment of leaders in the field of visual education, especially of those individuals with extensive experience in viewing and evaluating visual materials. A work-conference of such leaders was held in Washington, D. C., on June 22-24, 1948. At this conference the scope of the bibliography was defined, both as to materials and subject matter; criteria were established for the selection of specific visual aids; and a preliminary list of 371 motion pictures, prepared in advance of the conference, was examined and evaluated, from which certain films were recommended for inclusion in the bibliography, others were rejected, and still others were suggested for further study and investigation. The conferees who participated in this conference and who constituted an Advisory Committee to the Office of Education in the preparation of this bibliography, are: Following the work-conference, the Office of Education, acting upon the advice of the conferees and following the criteria established at the conference, screened and evaluated the films originally recommended for inclusion in the bibliography and those suggested for further study and investigation. For the most part, this reviewing was done by a group of five staff specialists, all of whom had participated in the conference, namely: FLOYDE E. BROOKER, Chief, Visual Aids to Education HOWARD CUMMINGS, Specialist in Government and Economics, Division of Secondary Education J. L. PHALAN, Specialist in Economics, Division of Higher Education SEERLEY REID, Assistant Chief, Visual Aids to Education JENNINGS B. SANDERS, Specialist in History, Division of Higher Education Reviews of 107 films 61 of them recommended for inclusion in the bibliography and 46 not so recommended-were sent in the early part of March 1949 to all members of the Advisory Committee for editing and approval, and upon the basis of the Committee's recommendations, a preliminary edition of the bibliography was issued in April 1949. Following the publication of this preliminary edition of the bibliography, whose incompleteness was recognized by both the Office of Education and the Advisory Committee, additional films were screened and evaluated and reviews submitted to members of the Advisory Committee. In addition, the 61 films previously chosen for the preliminary edition were reevaluated and upon the basis of a more rigorous application of the criteria of selection, it was decided that several films previously accepted should not be included in the final edition of the bibliography. In summary, 219 different films have been screened and evaluated in the process of preparing this bibliography: 102 were accepted and 117 were rejected. |