[Review of the book A Handbook for Socializing Education through Community Welfare Clubs

Abstract

Reviews the book, A Handbook for Socializing Education through Community Welfare Clubs by Walter Scott McNutt (1926). Despite its ambitious title, this slender paper-covered volume without table of contents, index, or bibliography, and with but a partial treatment of the field indicated, should be classified as a pamphlet rather than as a handbook in the traditional sense of the term. The volume, though limited in scope and in keenness of sociological penetration, offers practical suggestions to leaders of boys' and girls' clubs. Educators might be interested in the author's theory of social education, although, struggling as they do with the problem of finding specific materials and specific methods for the attainment of specific objectives for specific type groups and individuals, they will probably not share the author's enthusiasm for a social education so vaguely defined and yet so confidently considered as the magic solution for all the knotty problems of our present social order. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)