VOCATIONS IN FICTION PREFACE THE USE OF FICTION IN VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE. During recent years many teachers, vocational guidance counselors and librarians have recognized the value of fiction as a means of encouraging young people to read about occupations. Entertaining novels and stories about workers in various fields have been particularly useful for exploratory purposes with students who could not decide upon a career and in cases where students were apparently indifferent to the necessity of making any choice. Other ...
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VOCATIONS IN FICTION PREFACE THE USE OF FICTION IN VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE. During recent years many teachers, vocational guidance counselors and librarians have recognized the value of fiction as a means of encouraging young people to read about occupations. Entertaining novels and stories about workers in various fields have been particularly useful for exploratory purposes with students who could not decide upon a career and in cases where students were apparently indifferent to the necessity of making any choice. Other important uses of fiction in guidance have been pointed out in recent books. One writer says, Stories with accurate occupational settings are stimulating and effective in giv ing the real feeling of occupational life. For example, Janes Island, by Marjorie Hill Alice, gives the reader a glimpse of scientific work. The story in Edna Ferbers So Big is sketched against a background of vegetable gar dening outside a large city. . . . J1 Another writer con siders novels helpful because they may stress qualities and characteristics necessary for success in occupations. 2 HISTORY OF THE INDEX. This work was first compiled in 1928 as a term paper for a course in Vocational guidance given by Professor Arthur J. Jones, University of Penn sylvania. Later, it was expanded and completed as a project. of the Bureau of educational research, Ohio state univer sity, under the direction of Dr. W. W. Charters and with the assistance of Miss Marie Hanson, Detroit public 1 Lincoln, M, E., Teaching about vocational life Scranton Inter national textbook co., 1937, p. 100. 2 Jones, A. J., Principles of guidance 2d. ed. N. Y. McGraw-Hill, 1934, p. 324. 6 PREFACE library. It was due to the effortsof Miss Hanson during the last four months of its preparation that it was pos sible to complete the project in 1931. The enlarged list was issued in a preliminary mimeographed form by the American library association in 1932. Since that date, work has been continued with the idea of presenting the material in more permanent form. All publishers who were well represented in the preliminary edition were cir cularized and many helpful suggestions were received from them. They also sent books for examination. Excellent suggestions were volunteered by many interested librarians. A tentative selection for the revised edition was then sub mitted to a number of well-known school librarians and the adult titles were checked with the annotated approval cards in the Popular library of the Enoch Pratt free library, Baltimore. The final selection was based on comments and suggestions from the collaborators. PURPOSE. This revised and enlarged edition contains 463 novels representing 102 occupations. The list has been prepared primarily for the use of librarians, teachers and vocational counselors and is not intended to be placed in the hands of students as many of the adult titles are unsuitable for younger readers. The chief aim has been to bring to light novels of occupational significance. Should librarians purchase from the list, though it is not intended as a buying guide, careful attention should be given to the symbols assigned each book because a large percentage of the unstarred, less important titles have been included solely because they are likely to be found on the shelves of many libraries. With the exception of starred titles, the books here indexed should not be purchased for theirvoca tional value unless there is other demand for them as well. Users of this bibliography should bear in mind that this is not a comprehensive list of all novels with occupational PREFACE 7 settings the titles were chosen from approximately 2,000 novels. For additional titles, the cumulated indexes of the Book Review Digest might be consulted. CRITERIA FOR SELECTION. In the preparation of this edition, the compiler attempted to apply the following standards 1. Does the book give the real atmosphere of the occu pation 2...
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