NEW EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 8

NEW EDUCATION.

I . DOMINION SESSION. SPEAKERS FROM OVERSEAS. WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS. A tentative programme, for the New Zealand session of the Xew Education Fellowship has been drafted, ami linal arrangement* for the educational conference to be held from July 9 to July 27 are in progress. As the name suggests, the conference i* mainly intended tor the benefit of teachers, but other sections of tTie community are to be catered for, including nurses, parents, artists and others interested in psychology and social welfare. The theme for the" conference will be "The Bases of Educational Reorganisation. ,, Dates arranged for the meetings are as follow: Auckland, July 10 to July 15; Wellington, July 19 to July :23; Christchurch, July I*3 to July 17; Dunedin, July 19 to July 24. The ilatos have been so arranged in order that those attending will be able to bear the majority of the speaker* by attending the Christ-L-hurch session "first and then making straight for Wellington. After the New Zealand session there will be a large conference in Australia. The general arrangement will be to hold six lectures and discussion groups in the morning, and go extensively into special topics. During the latter part of the morning a lecture on a more general topic will be given by an overseas visitor, tn the afternoon it is proposed to hold a programme including excursions, demonstrations and discussions. Lectures wiTT be held in the town halLs whenever they are available. Subjects For Discussion. Topics will be selected under the fol-. lowing heads: Organisation and administration; aim* and methods of modern education; education of the adolescent; educational and vocational guidance; ' the infant and pre-school child; psychology and physical and mental hygiene of the"child; the teacher's professional life; adult education; rural society and its educational problems; education through art; educational movements and experiments abroad. Each of these general ' topics is divided into about six specialised subjects, which should provide the ' ba&is for interesting discussion. \ (speakers for the conference will come from England, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Finland, Austria, Switzerland [ and possibly India, Russia and Japan. Prominent lecturers attending from overseas will include: Dr. William Boyd, head of the Department of Education at the Glasgow University; Dr. Edmund de S. Brunner, Professor of Education, Teachers' College, Columbia University; Dr. Paul L. Dengler, director Austro- , American Institute of Education, Vienna; Mr. E. Salter Da vies, Director ' of Education, Kent; Dr. Susan Isaacs, head of the Department of Child Development, London University; Dr. ' Cyril Norwood, president St. John's College, Oxford; and Mr. L. Zilliacus, 1 headmaster of Experimental School, Hel- > singfora, Finland.