CHANGING CONDITIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20784, 20 July 1937, Page 6

CHANGING CONDITIONS

REVISION IN EDUCATIONAL METHODS By Telegrapn Hies* association DUNEDIN, July 19. The 1937 World Congress of the New Education Fellowship was opened this morning with a full programme of lectures and discussions on a variety of aspects of the vital problem of revising educational method and practice to suit the rapidly changing conditions of the modern world. More than 1090 teachers from all parts of Otago and Southland attended the Inaugural seminars in the morning, and there were full attendances at the major lectures of the day, the first by Dr. Cyril Norwood, of St. John’s College, Oxford, who dealt with “Coming Developments in Education in England,” and the second in His Majesty’s Theatre by Dr. Harold Rugg, of Columbia University, New York, who spoke on “American Culture and Education.” In the afternoon a civic reception was tendered to the visitors by the Mayor.

The morning seminars covered a wide range of subjects and provided a new orientation of education for most of those who took part. Professor I. L. Kandel (New York) dealt with problems of education control, and Mr A. Lismer (Toronto) provoked some interesting discussion with his lecture on “The Art of the Infant.” Dr. E. G. Malherbe (Pretoria) devoted Ills time to a discourse on “The Treatment and Prevention of Delinquency,” and Sir Percy Meadow (Lancashire) dealt with “Rural Education.” The use of the English language was ably handled by Dr. Norwood, and Dr. Harold Rugg presented some new and Interesting ideas on the planning of the educational curriculum. "Pupil Activity in Modem Education" was the subject of tlie morning lecture of Rektor Zllliacus (Finland).