The Fifth Yearbook of the National Herbart Society for the Scientific Study of Teaching: Significance of the Frontier in American History; Mediaeval and Modern History in the High School; The Social End of Education; Plan and Purpose of the National Herb…

112 pp. Red cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. "Herbartianism (Her-bart-ti-an-ism) is an educational philosophy, movement, and method loosely based on the educational and pedagogical thought of German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart, and influential on American school pedagogy of the late 19th century as the field worked towards a science of education. Herbart advocated for instruction that introduced new ideas in discrete steps. About a quarter-century after his death, Herbart's ideas were expanded in two German schools of thought that were later embodied in the method used at a practice school in Jena, which attracted educationists from the United States. Herbartianism was later replaced by new pedagogies, such as those of John Dewey. ...Between the 1890s and the early twentieth century, Herbartianism was influential in normal schools and universities as they worked towards a science of education. Adherents of Herbartianism founded the National Herbart Society in 1895 "to study and investigate and discuss important problems of education". Among those prominent in the society were Charles De Garmo (their first president), Charles Alexander McMurry, and Frank Morton McMurry, who all wrote on methods in education. The society also acknowledged works influenced by Herbartianism, such as two works by John Dewey, within a yearbook. The society removed Herbart from its name in 1902 and later became the National Society for the Study of Education."