The Houseparent in the Residential School

Abstract

The importance of the function of houseparents in residential schools is coming to be more clearly recognized. The discussions that follow comprise a symposium, and, we feel, will prove of value to educators of blind children. These discussions originated at three meetings in different parts of the country; all were “firsts”: the first regional houseparents conference, held at Donelson, Tennessee, in the Spring of 1954; the first Northwest conference of houseparents, held at Salem, Oregon, in the Fall of 1954; and the first workshop on the education of blind Negro children, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the Fall of 1954. All three meetings were previously reported in the New Outlook, without emphasis on the subject of houseparents. For the convenience of those who are interested, we append a rather inclusive selected bibliography on many phases of the subject.—Editor.