Edgar Dale
Edgar Dale (April 27, 1900 – March 8, 1985) was an American educationist who developed the Cone of Experience. He made several contributions to audio and visual instruction, including a methodology for analyzing the content of motion pictures. Born and raised in North Dakota he received a B.A. and M.A. from the Universtiy of North Dakota and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago. [1] His doctroral thesis was titled, "Factual Basis for Curriculum Revision in Arithmetic with Special Reference to Children's Understanding of Business Terms."[2] and is pre-cursor for his later work with vocabulary and readability. He was a professor of education at Ohio State University.
In 1933 Dale wrote a paper on how to effectively create a High School film appreciation class. This paper has been noted for having a very different view of adolescent interaction with films than that taken by the Film Control Boards of the time.[3]
Dale's Cone of Experience has often been misrepresented by those who add numbers to the cone. Hundreds, if not thousands, of misrepresentations have been created.[clarification needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Wagner, Robert W. Edgar Dale: Professional. Theory into Practice. Vol. 9, No. 2, Edgar Dale (Apr., 1970), pp. 89-95 - http://www.jstor.org/pss/1475566
- ^ http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4174355
- ^ article about Dale's writing on film appreciation
[edit] External links
- See the following webpage for (1) some of the most common misrepresentations, (2) an image of Dale's original cone, and (3) citations.
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