"TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH"
New Zealand Teachers In Training
EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY'S OPINION
"New Zealand teachers in training are trying to do too much in their two-year period at the training colleges," said Dr. I. L. Kandel, a world authority on comparative education, who is visiting Christchurch. "They are overcrowding their programmes, trying to do their .theory, academic, and practical work and take university courses all at once."
Dr. Kandel has already Jiad a month investigating education methods in New Zealand, and this is one of several conclusions to which he has come. He said in an interview on Saturday that more and more demand was going to be made on teachers as modern educational ideas were put into practice. If any genuine movement for greater freedom was to come with the abolition of the proficiency examination, then teachers would have to be properly prepared for it. The tendency in all countries was to raise the requirements of teachers and to prolong their period of preparation. New Zealand teachers could not do thoroughly all they were trying to do in their two-year training period. In the United States the training time had been extended to three and four years. There had been similar development in other countries. From what he has seen of the New Zealand education system, Dr. Kandel has decided that more unified control is desirable, together with better organisation and co-ordination of the various stages of education, and the development of a more realistic approach tax in the school curricula.
The post-primary schools, he said, should be released from their university bias. Their syllabuses had been regulated according to the needs of pupils intending to go on to the university, but the proportion of students going on to the universities did not justify this, and there should be greater freedom and flexibility, allowing children to obtain a broad general education more fitted to modern needs. The basis of this broader education had been indicated by Dr. Cyril Norwood, of Oxford, in an interview publishpd in "TVio Pro«" nrt Saturday morninp
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22142, 12 July 1937, Page 10
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