Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations CLEANLINESS IN THE HOME 33 lesson, about what their mothers do to keep the home clean. They will already be inclined to think highly of the trouble taken in this direction, and of the ends aimed at, because they think highly of their mothers. The teacher...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Health and Cleanliness Council
March 1938
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/27CCB16F-2F19-4445-9ABB-9FBCA3D19201 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/E91172A1-6CA8-436E-94EF-5B74CF7D7E21 |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
CLEANLINESS IN THE HOME 33 lesson, about what their mothers do to keep the home clean. They will already be inclined to think highly of the trouble taken in this direction, and of the ends aimed at, because they think highly of their mothers. The teacher can strengthen this attitude by extending her approval. In many schools the attitude towards cleanliness is reinforced practically by appointing monitors who undertake dusting, sweeping, and the like, at convenient times. The children can thus be encouraged to demand cleanliness as an ordinary part of their everyday environment, and be made to realise that they can bring about the desired cleanliness through efforts of their own. The motive throughout is, at this stage, that cleanliness is esteemed by people who are loved and respected; and that efforts towards cleanliness can be made in imitation of the efforts of these people. But even at this stage an ethical motive may be introduced in respect of this particular subject-matter. If other people desire cleanliness as much as we do, is it right that we should carry dirt into their houses on our shoes? If it is so much trouble to keep a home clean, is it right that we should increase this labour by our own laziness? Thus it is possible to make children feel shame in connection with habits which are opposed to cleanliness and so to develop a motive for their elimination. At a later stage it will be found possible to link the matter of this topic in an interesting way to a number of interests. The boy of ten or thereabouts is keenly interested in stories of adventure, and often enough in "Cub" activities (anticipating the career of the Boy Scout). Life in the open air, camping, and sleeping out of doors interest him — and it is possible to interest him still more by telling him that a life of this kind greatly strengthens men and women, boys and girls. British weather makes such a life out of the question for a great part of the year, but it is nevertheless possible to sleep in a room with open windows and raised blinds, to see the stars as one falls
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