Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, &C, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, &C, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) written by Great Britain Board of Education and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, &C, Vol. 8 Sir, I have the honour to present to you the accompanying volume of Special Reports dealing with various educations subjects which are of iutereet at the present time. The papers contained in this volume fall into three groups.* (1) Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, etc. In this group, four papers are devoted to education in Scandinavia. Special reference is mode in them to two questions: (I) the virtual abolition of Latin in the ordinary secondary schools in Norway, and the similar, though somewhat less sweeping, tendency in the Swedish secondary schools; and (2) the movement in Swedeu for making elementary education more practical and a much more definite preparation for skill in handicraft. Both of those questions, m another form, are pressing on the thoughts of many English students of education, and it is hoped that the account of what is being done in Scandinavia will prove of special interest at the present time. Two other papers give detailed information as to the training and status of primary aud secondary teachers in Switzerland, and describe the main features of the school system of Zurich. Another paper describes the historical development of the system of primary education in the Netherlands with special reference to its influence on English education and to recent important changes in Dutch educational law. Other papers give accounts of education in Hungary, Portugal and Servia; and one describes the Ecoles Matemelles in Paris, comparing the methods adopted in those schools with those generally in uso in infant schools in England. (2) In view of the growing interest which is taken in the methods of teaching as distinct from questions of educational administration, some of the papers are devoted to discussions of the ways of teaching two subjects which are almost universally regarded as being, if well taught, of high disciplinary value- Arithmetic and Latin. The aim of the writers, whose proposals arc based on long experience as teachers, is to suggest methods of instruction which will teach the pupils to think, and give them a rad interest in their work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.