2 LEWIS H. CARRIS, Administrative Head. JOHN AUBEL KRATZ, Chief, Industrial Rehabilitation Division. C. H. LANE, Chief, Agricultural Education Service. EARL W. BARNHART, Chief, Commercial Education Service. ANNA E. RICHARDSON, Chief, Home Economics Education Service. J. C. WRIGHT, Chief, Industrial Education Service. JOHN CUMMINGS, Economist and Statistician. Introduction___ CONTENTS. Section I.-Health problems of mother and infant_ Outline 1. Birth registration and infant mortality---- Outline 2. The development of the fetus and the problem of heredity. Section II.-The development, general hygiene, and feeding of the child___ Outline 1. Growth and physical development of the average healthy Outline 3. The causes, social cost, and prevention of child labor---- Outline 4. The present legal status of child labor in the United Outline 5. Vocational education and guidance in the United States. – Outline 6. Minimum standards for children entering employment. Section VII.-Children in need of special care_. Outline 1. Causes and prevention of child dependency and neglect --- Outline 2. Causes and prevention of juvenile delinquency__. Outline 3. The care of dependent, neglected, and delinquent children_ Outline 4. Children handicapped physically or mentally. Outline 5. Community organization for child-helping work--- Available bulletins of the Federal Board for Vocational Education___ FOREWORD. From institutions that are offering courses for the training of vocational teachers of home economics there has been a very general demand for source material which could be used as the basis of instruction in child care and child welfare. This demand comes because of the emphasis that is now placed upon child care as an important part of the vocational training for home making. The Federal Board for Vocational Education is charged with the duty of making studies, investigations, and reports which will be of assistance to the States in the establishment and conduct of vocational schools and classes. When deemed advisable, these studies and reports may be made in cooperation with or through other Government departments interested in similar lines of work. One of the chief functions of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor is to make studies and investigations in the field. of child care and child welfare. Through a cooperative arrangement between that bureau and the Federal Board for Vocational Education this bulletin has been prepared. The bulletin deals with the important phases of childhood and is published with the hope that it may serve to stimulate the right kind of instruction in child care as a part of the training for vocational teachers of home economics. These outlines are not prepared for use directly as lessons. They are not in lesson form, but are published as source material from which the instructor may make her own course. Many of these outlines will be found to overlap, and it may be that certain subjects are not presented, or at least not given sufficient emphasis. Occasionally slight differences of opinion will be found to exist, for authorities are in disagreement on some of the important points discussed. Both the Children's Bureau and the Federal Board will welcome frank criticism and constructive suggestions which may lead to an improvement of the teaching of this subject, both in the colleges and in vocational schools of less than college grade. The preparation of this material has been undertaken by the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, under the direction of Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, M. D., assisted by Miss Mercy Beardsley Hooker. |