NATURE STUDY IN SCHOOLS
Reduced Emphasis Criticised
The Director of Education (Mr A. E. Campbell) would be informed that the Canterbury Education Board was alarmed at the encroachment of physical science upon nature study, the board’s agricultural committee told the board yesterday.
“The director will be told that the board considers that the encouragement of nature study at primary school level is essential to the full development of the child,” said the committee’s report. The report said the decision was made after discussion of a circular from the Director of Education advising that the third-year nature study specialist course would not be held in 1962. A letter had also been received advising that the present course for intending nature study specialists was to be revised because the department wished "to recognise the increasing importance of general science in the primary school curriculum.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29626, 23 September 1961, Page 15
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