Memorandum In Explanation And Expansion Of The Boards Circular On The Teaching Of History In Secondary Schools

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Download or read book Memoranda on Teaching and Organisation in Secondary Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoranda on Teaching and Organisation in Secondary Schools: History 1. This Circular is issued for the guidance of Head Masters and Head Mistresses in arranging the course of work in history. It must he clearly understood that it is not the wish of the Board to lay down strict rules either as to the arrangement of the course or as to the methods of teaching. This would he, above all, undesirable in a subject such as history, in which perhaps more than in any other there is room for the greatest variety of treatment. The experience of Inspectors, however, shows that in many schools there is clearly need for some help. In this circular, wherever Masters and hoys are spoken of, Mistresses and girls are understood to be included. Arrangement of the Course. 2. The time given to history is generally two lessons a week. This is generally as much as can he spared from other subjects; hut, as is pointed out below, it can he indirectly increased by establishing a connection between the teaching of history and that of English literature and composition, and (in the higher forms) that of modern languages. It may sometimes be desirable for one or more terms to use more of the available time for some other subject, such as geography, and at another part of the school course to give extra time to history in compensation. Arrangements of this kind are specially useful when the master who teaches the English subjects has a special knowledge of either history or geography. 3. The first stage, which begins at the earliest age and ends at about the age of 12, will consist almost entirely of stories. These should not be confined to stories taken from the history of England. The pupils should become familiar with the chief events and characters from the history of the most important nations, in their traditional form. Where the field is so great there is endless scope for selection, but it might include, besides the obvious stories from the history of the British Isles, stories such as those of the siege of Troy, the Persian Wars, Alexander the Great, stories from Roman History, the fall of Jerusalem, and the history of the early Church, the sack of Rome by Alaric and the invasion of Attila, Charlemagne, the Cid, St. Louis, St. Francis of Assisi, William the Silent, Columbus and other explorers, Galileo, Washington, Garibaldi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.