The Human Problem in Schools (1938) A Psychological Study Carried Out on Behalf of the Girls' Public Day School Trust

1. The Uses of the Chart and the Postcard Sorting -- 2. Comparison between the Interests of a 'Satisfactory' Group and a 'Difficult' Group -- 3. Summary of Findings in the Interview -- SECTION III THE FUNCTION OF THE PSYCHOLOGIST WITHIN THE SCHOOL -- I. WHAT THE PSYCHOLOGIST HAS TO OFFER -- 1. Possible Contributions -- (a) Techniques for the Study of Individual Differences -- (b) Facts resulting from research -- (c) Technical Concepts which are useful as Instruments -- (d) A Point of View -- (e) A Mirror -- (f) Therapeutic and re-educational techniques -- 2. Techniques for the Study of Individual Differences -- 3. Facts resulting from Research -- (a) Facts about Intelligence -- (b) Facts about Temperament -- (c) Facts about the Learning Process -- (d) Facts about Cause and Effect in Behaviour -- II. SOME ASPECTS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT IN WORK EFFICIENCY -- 1. An Experiment in Rest Pauses -- 2. Problems of Supervision and Morale -- 3. Results of the Feeling of Personal Futility -- 4. The Feeling of Futility in School -- 5. Need for a Sense of Social Function -- III. CONCEPTS USEFUL AS INSTRUMENTS -- 1. Logic versus Tradition -- 2. Freedom and Change -- 3. Finding a Social Function -- 4. The Concept of Egocentricity -- 5. The Mechanism of Projection -- IV. A POINT OF VIEW -- 1. Belief in Free-willed Intention -- 2. Alternatives to Exhortation -- 3. The Idea that all Behaviour has Meaning -- 4. Temperamental Differences in Belief in Will-Power -- 5. The Psychological Mirror as an Aid to Reflection -- SECTION IV PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 1. Testing the Hypotheses Offered -- 2. A possible modification of the Teacher-taught Relationship -- SOME PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES DISCUSSED -- 1. Contacts between School and Parents -- (a) Private Conferences between Head Mistresses and Parents -- (b) Meetings between Parents and Staff