Orville Gilbert Brim

Orville Gilbert Brim also in the spelling variants Orville G. Brim , OG Brim (born August 18, 1883 in Latchie, Wood County , Ohio , † May 24, 1987 in Tucson , Pima County , Arizona ) was an American educator and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Orville Gilbert Brim, fourth of five children of Gilbert Birchall Brim (1853-1910) and his wife Elizabeth Amelia (1853-1929), who was born in Latchie, a small community southwest of Toledo , grew up studying education at the Tri-State University in Angola , Indiana , then at Valparaiso University , where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1907 . After two semesters of study at Harvard University , Brim completed his training later at the Teachers College of Columbia University , where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1911 and a Ph. D.

The Protestant baptized Orville Gilbert Brim married on June 29, 1913 Mary Helen born Whittier (1887–1975). This connection resulted in five children, including the sociologist and educator Orville Gilbert Brim Jr. He died in Tucson in May 1987, a few months before he was 104.

Professional background

After Orville Gilbert had taught at a one-room school in Indiana for two years before studying at Valparaiso University , he then took over the director's position at the high school in Berne , Indiana, which he held until 1909. After studying at Harvard University, he was appointed head of the Department of Education at Mississippi Normal College in Hattiesburg in 1912 . In 1915 he moved to Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the same position . After the United States entered World War I , he served on behalf of the YMCA in France and Italy .

After returning to the United States in 1919, he accepted the offer of a professorship in rural education at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . In 1923 he followed a call from Ohio State University to a professorship for elementary education , in 1941 he was adopted into retirement. Orville Gilbert Brim, a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party , member of the National Rural Education Association (NREA), the National Society for the Study of Education and the Phi Delta Kappa, is one of the leading pioneers in the field of rural education , which in particular focuses on rural education and Includes teacher training.

Fonts

• Educational progress and the parents, in: Rural school leaflet, no.15, Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1923
• Rural education: a critical study of the objectives and needs of the rural elementary schools, Thesis (Ph.D.) --- Columbia University, 1920, in: Rural education series, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1923
• with William C. Bagley, Mabel Carney: Rural school survey of New York state; The teaching personnel, New York, Ithaca, 1923
• together with Guy Montrose Whipple: The status of rural education: first report of the Society's Committee on Rural Education, in: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 30th, pt. 1., Public School Pub. Co., Bloomington, Ill., 1931
• The foundations of progressive education, [Columbus] Elementary education club of Ohio State University, 1935
• An approach to a philosophy of education; a tentative report of the Committee on philosophy of education, appointed by the Progressive education association, September, 1938, 1939
• Scientific method, 19--

literature

• RUS: Rural uplook service; a preliminary attempt to register the rural leadership in the United States and Canada, volume I., Ithaca, NY, 1918, p. 85.
• Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States, volume III-VI, Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1934, p. 106.
• Who was who in America. : volume VII, 1977-1981 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 72.

Web links

• Orville Gilbert Brim at WorldCat