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FREE DISCIPLINE PLAN. STANDARD OF NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS. (Special to the Tinies.) WELLINGTON, February 15. Some interesting comment on kindergarten work, free discipline and individuality is made by Miss Doris Jameson, a New Zealand teacher, formerly of Christchurch Training College, who has returned from abroad, to take up a new appointment at the Auckland Training College as Kindergarten Mistress. Miss Jameson has spent ten months in Vancouver, and six months in London, visiting schools, mainly kindergarten schools, in London. While abroad, Miss Jameson also visited special schools for the physically defective, mental defective, deaf and tubercular. She witnessed the work carried on at some of the retardate institutions at Home where the teaching is highly specialised, and largely under the control of the school medical officers. In the case of mental defectives, hand-work 'performs a very important part of the curriculum. Eurhythmies and singing are also very largely developed, more time and attention being paid to them than in New Zealand. Individuality methods are freely adopted in the junior schools of England; in fact, educational and stationery firms are specialising in suitable apparatus, with particular application to elementary subjects, such as reading and arithmetic. The methods employed are based to some extent on those devised by Madame Montessori? the Italian specialist. Free discipline is in full force in all English schools, but not in Canadian schools, said Miss Jameson. Children are now being widely educated in self-control, and in the attribute of thinking and acting for themselves. Asked whether, from her experience abroad, she was satisfied with the efficiency of New Zealand schools, in regard to the elementary subjects of education, Miss Jameson said that she was impressed with the fact that New Zealand schools were conducted on very progressive and modern lines, and that the general standard of education in the Dominion was very high.
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Southland Times, Issue 19172, 16 February 1924, Page 2
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