Alma Thomas's 1934 master's thesis focused on using marionettes as a 'correlating activity' to combine lessons in anatomy, design principles, electrical engineering, history, language arts, music, sewing, and woodworking.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Frist Art Museum educator guide with nearly verbatim language, plus independent corroboration from UConn Digital Commons thesis catalog entry and a Yale Review essay describing the same 1934 Columbia Teachers College thesis on marionettes as an interdisciplinary teaching tool. [tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Eleven Fascinating Acquisitions That Joined the ... (seed:culture_and_philosophy)
- https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_catalogues/17/ (corroboration)
- https://fristartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/Alma-Thomas-educator-guide-and-images.pdf (corroboration)
- https://yalereview.org/article/alexis-pauline-gumbs-alma-thomas-essay (corroboration)