REFRESHER COURSE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 23

REFRESHER COURSE

HOME SCIENCE TEACHERS Most people feel that it is important to be up-to-date—some just because they must be in the fashion, and if the latest hats are high-crowned they must go high-hat too. Others feel that their interest in their work demands that they should keep abreast with all the latest information. In the latter cate gory are the Home Science teachers because theirs is a living subject. Each new advance of science seems to have a bearing on home life. The teacher whose aim is “to show how we may use all the resources of modern science to improve home life ” is always looking for opportunities to learn how the latest knowledge will influence their teaching. With this end in view some 60 Home Science graduates will attend a " refresher, course ’’ to be given in the Home Science School from January 23 to January 27. All the lecturers In the special departments of the school are preparing courses, which will give, in a condensed form, up-to-the-minute information on their own subjects. Dr Elizabeth Gregory’s course will consist of three hours per day on “ Recent Advances in Nutritional Knowledge,” advanced techniques in teaching dressmaking, pattern designing and arts and crafts will be given by Miss A. Bowbyes, and her assistant, Miss L. Phillips, M.A., Miss Helen Thomson. M. of the applied chemistry depart ment, will give a short course on the new artificial fibres, and the new typer of laundry powders, showing how they may be identified, and used to best advantage. Miss C. Mac Gibbon, M.Sc., head of the Foods Department, will give a short course on approved standard practices for all types of food preparation and cooking. Miss D. Dolton, M.A., the A.C.E.’s tutor in child development and management, will lead discussion groups on her subjects. To assist the teachers in the use of all this information Professor A. G Strong, 0.8. E., will herself lecture and demonstrate on “ The Art of Teaching Home Science.” While most of these lectures will be of too technical a nature to be of value to the average housewife, those on tire subject of child management and development will be open to’ the pubic, and thus all those interested who would wish to participate in the discussion, will have an opportunity to do so. Full details will be advertised later, when applications for enrolment will be invited by the secretary of the Home Science School.