Creator:
Jessica Langworthy
Date Range:
1920-1934, bulk 1922-1925
Call number:
AG152
Abstract:
Jessica L. Langworthy worked at Perkins from 1892 until 1936. During that time she served as a teacher, principal, and taught “Special Methods,” a course that was part of the teacher training courses at Harvard taught by Perkins director Edward E. Allen. This collection documents Dr. Jessica Langworthy’s work with the Perkins Harvard Teacher Training program. It includes essays, notes, lectures, and reading notes covering topics such as education of children who are blind, teaching methods, curriculum topics, and the role of the teacher.
Extent:
.5 linear feet, 1 manuscript box
Language:
English
Processed by:
Susanna Coit, 2020
Biographical/Historical notes:
Following Jessica L. Langworthy’s graduation from Smith College in 1892, she worked at Perkins until 1936. During that time, she served as a teacher of English in the Boys’ School (1892-1917), a principal of the Boys’ Department (1918-1925), and taught a course at Harvard starting in February of 1926. The course, “Special Methods” of teaching blind youth, was part of the teacher training courses taught by Perkins director, Edward E. Allen.
Langworthy became the assistant of Dr. Edward E. Allen in his Harvard course on the Education of the Blind in 1925. In February of 1926 she developed a course in “special methods” of teaching the blind, supplementing the Harvard course and supplying the practice to match its theory and background. Langworthy served as Harvard Class Tutorial Guide and Head of the Special Methods course from 1925-1936. She is also credited with helping Director Allen get his Harvard course started. Langworthy received a Doctor of Education from Harvard in 1928. (Fish, 3)
Sources of information:
Fish, Anna G. “Jessica L. Langworthy.” The Lantern, (Internet Archive) 15 June 1938, p. 3.
Hale, Jen. “A legacy of teaching students and teaching teachers.” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA. March 19, 2020.
Restrictions:
None
Copyright:
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Credit line/Citation:
AG152 Jessica Langworthy Teacher Training Papers, Perkins School for the Blind Archives, Watertown MA
Scope/Contents:
This collection documents Dr. Jessica Langworthy’s work with the Perkins Harvard Teacher Training program. The collection includes her essays, lectures, and reading notes between 1920 and 1934. Topics include education of children who are blind, the role of the teacher of the blind, her own teaching methods and experiences, and specific curriculum topics.
Arrangement:
B1:F1 = Box 1: Folder 1
The collection is arranged in five series. The contents of each series represents the content of one binder. The order of the essays in the series is the order that they were arranged in the binder.
5 Series, 1 box
- Series 1: Original housing
- Series 2: Book V – Various essays, 1920-1926, bulk 1920-1922
- Series 3: Book VI – Various essays, 1925-1933, bulk 1925-1926
- Series 4: Book VII – Notes of reading and lectures, undated
- Series 5: Book VII – Harvard class, 1925, 1934
Related collections:
AG1 Edward E. Allen Collection. Perkins School for the Blind Archives, Watertown, MA.
Container List:
Series 1: Original housing
- B1:F1: Original housing
Series 2: Book V, 1920-1926
- B1:F2: Book V – Original housing and front matter
- B1:F3: “School Efficiency”, 1922
- B1:F4: “Grading in the Boys’ Department”, 1922
- B1:F5: “Some Elements of Success”, 1920
- B1:F6: “The Teacher”, 1921
- B1:F7: [Essay about writing methods, 1921]
- B1:F8: “Studying”, 1921
- B1:F9: “Further Thoughts on Studying”, 1922
- B1:F10: “The Study of Latin”, undated
- B1:F11: “Special Methods, 1925-1926”, 1926
Series 3: Book VI, 1925-1933
- B1:F12: Book VI – Original housing
- B1:F13: “Blindness in Fiction”, 1925, 1929
- B1:F14: “Early Education of Blind Children”, 1925
- B1:F15: “The Education and Social Needs of the Blind Child”, 1925
- B1:F16: “Planning Our Lives”, 1925
- B1:F17: “Problems to be met in obtaining a world of freedom…”, 1926
- B1:F18: “Course for the training of teachers of the blind…1925-1936”, 1926
- B1:F19: “Prospectus: Special Methods, 1926-1927”, 1926
- B1:F20: “Play in the Education of a Blind Child”, 1926
- B1:F21: “The Pre-School Blind Child”, 1926
- B1:F22: “An Appreciation”, undated
- B1:F23: “Definitions”, undated
- B1:F24: “The Changing School”, 1933
Series 4: Book VII, undated
- B1:F25: Book VII – Original housing
- B1:F26: “Introduction to the Study of Education”, undated
Series 5: Book VII, 1925, 1934
- B1:F27: Book VII – Harvard Class – original housing
- B1:F28: “The Aims of Education”, undated
- B1:F29: “The Field of Social Understanding”, undated
- B1:F30: “The Training of Teachers”, 1930
- B1:F31: “Notes on the Child Centered School…”, undated
- B1:F32: “Some Suggestions to Teachers of Blind Children”, 1925, 1934
- B1:F33: “An Experiment in Teaching Astronomy”, undated
Subject Headings:
- Perkins School for the Blind.
- Perkins School for the Blind–History.
- Allen, Edward E. (Edward Ellis), 1861-1950
- Teachers of people who are blind
- Teaching
- Smith College
- Harvard University–History.
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