What Do We Mean by Discipline? What Do We Mean by Freedom?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsElaine DebusThe planning committee for this issue of Childhood Education thought it would be interesting to have a group of children and a group of adults discuss these questions independently. The round table discussions presented here, after editing, are the result. The discussion leaders, A. D. BUCHMUELLER, a psychiatric social worker, and MRS. JOHN H. PORTER, his assistant, do group therapy in several St. Louis Public Schools with parents of children who have problems. This experimental work, now in its fourth year, is supported by the St. Louis Council for Parent Education.Mrs. Porter led the discussion among the following seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls: Carol Burgess, Edmund Conley, Alfred Crismon, Stuart Knoeppel, Tom Meyer, Angelo Migneco, Judy O'neal, John Robinson, Jerry Sexton, and Robert Stevens. All are pupils of Roe Elementary School, St. Louis.Mr. Buchmueller acted as discussion leader for Carl L. Byerly, director oj special services, Clayton, Missouri, Public Schools; Ruth Cornelius, primary teacher, St. Louis Public Schools, Elaine Debus, principal, St. Louis Public Schools, Elizabeth Lloyd, director, Nursery School, and instructor, Department oj Education, Washington University, St. Louis, and Alberta L. Meyer, intermediate Teacher, St. Louis Public Schools.Alberta L. MeyerThe planning committee for this issue of Childhood Education thought it would be interesting to have a group of children and a group of adults discuss these questions independently. The round table discussions presented here, after editing, are the result. The discussion leaders, A. D. BUCHMUELLER, a psychiatric social worker, and MRS. JOHN H. PORTER, his assistant, do group therapy in several St. Louis Public Schools with parents of children who have problems. This experimental work, now in its fourth year, is supported by the St. Louis Council for Parent Education.Mrs. Porter led the discussion among the following seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls: Carol Burgess, Edmund Conley, Alfred Crismon, Stuart Knoeppel, Tom Meyer, Angelo Migneco, Judy O'neal, John Robinson, Jerry Sexton, and Robert Stevens. All are pupils of Roe Elementary School, St. Louis.Mr. Buchmueller acted as discussion leader for Carl L. Byerly, director oj special services, Clayton, Missouri, Public Schools; Ruth Cornelius, primary teacher, St. Louis Public Schools, Elaine Debus, principal, St. Louis Public Schools, Elizabeth Lloyd, director, Nursery School, and instructor, Department oj Education, Washington University, St. Louis, and Alberta L. Meyer, intermediate Teacher, St. Louis Public Schools.