Show 3A Flora J faculty trained under Colonel Parker of the Cooke and a County Normal School i The work ganized around the concrete activities of children Flora pupil needs and developments and in the elementary division Cooke spoke Cook was or- -! growing out of of the leadership vision of Parker in the following words: i "Colonel Parker realized : in an and to music He at that time that we were living! listening passively to art believed that children in order to love that people age of absorptions lectures even were f beauty must try to create act sing land and dance it He believed that they must dramatize cook and sew model 5 paint construct i i of the principal contributions made to One audio-visu- al edu- - i cation by Francis Parker was his influence in improving geography t j teaching in the United States by advocating by Festalozzi and Ritter He also "home geography" was a dominant as taught force in securing an adoption of the Froebelian theory in elementary school work by il- lustrating it in practical action at his school The Oswego Movement the history of audio-visu- al characterized as "the which introduced the One of the most important movements in education was what has been generally Oswego movement" Pestaloszian principles of object teaching and sense preception in the United States began at Oswego New York under Flora J Cooke "Colonel Francis ¥ Parker and His Influence Education" Progressive Education 13:537 1937 -- Upon This significant activity |