HOME SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 15

HOME SCIENCE

GRADUATES AND STUDENTS

DUNEDIN CONFERENCE

A conference of Home Science Students and Graduates is being held in Dunedin, and the "Otago Daily Times" gives some interesting excerpts from the addresses given.

Dr. Elizabeth Gregory gavo a demonstration on the uses of milk, and Miss Stenhouse showed special preparation of food. Ultra-violet rays were tho subject of discussion and an address by Dr. Gregory, who showed their importance in such cases as rickets.

During the second day there was a r demonstration of pattern-making, and the afternoon programme commenced with a demonstration of bread-making by Professor Strong. This was followed by' an address on "Iron and Anaemia," contributed by Dr. Gregory. There was an exhibition of the "boxes" used by the Home Science Extension Service, and in the evening there was a^ scries of. informal talks. PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING METHODS.

"Principles Underlying the Methods of Teaching" was the title of a thought-provoking address given by Professor Strong. The speaker stated that the problem of teachers was to find methods of helping- the child to appreciate and control the values of life. Appreciation meant the proper estimation of a thing. The child must be assisted to judge values, to prize and lovo them. It must bo a constant aim to stimulate initiative, as it was self-actuated work which gavo tho greatest gain to pupils. The school programme should be based on freedom, not restraint, and the encouragement