Report of the Consultative committee on secondary education with special reference to grammar schools and technical high schools.

  • Great Britain. Board of Education. Consultative Committee
Date:
1938
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    ANALYSIS OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE’S REPORT CHAPTER I.—SKETCH OF THE’ DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADITIONAL CURRICULUM IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, OF, DIFFERENT .[YPES.IN ENGLAND AND WALES SECTION PAGE 1. The “lessons of history’’ and their limitations. The importance of the sociological background. The traditionai curriculum reflects in its history the struggle between rival philosophies of life and divergent theories of education and human development .. aoe a vs es ns 1 2. The conception of general education current in England and Wales in the Middle Ages and down to the close of the eighteenth century. The Seven Liberal Arts: Trivium and Quadrivium : aie oe Ss ats The Grammar Schools, local and non-local The relation of the Grammar Schools to the Universities and to the system of apprenticeship ry e we a 6 5. The curriculum of the Grammar Schools in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we ae a 6. The Courtly Academies .. ae a hit ae «4 9 7. The Mathematical Schools i oe ae as a 10 8. The Nonconformist Academies xe an bas ae 1] 9. The Public Schools and Grammar Schools down to 1840 13 10. Attacks on the traditional curriculum. . ns as oe: VW 11. Educational experiments — ae igs xe i 20 12. The gradual enrichment of the traditional curriculum in some of the Public Schools .. oe en se a5 21 13. The rise of Proprietary Schools, boardingandday .. Se 24 14. The emergence of Middle Class Schools ee Rig Bie 23 15. The views of the Public Schools Commission (1861-1864) on the traditional curriculum Be Be Ps ee 27 16. The Report of the Schools Inquiry Commission (1864-1868) 29 17. The general views of the Schools Inquiry Commission on curriculum oe Se i oe aR ee ae 32 18. The Endowed Schools Commission (1869-1874): the Charity Commission (1874-1902) .. ss ne e 35 19. The influence of external examinations from about 1850 on the curriculum of secondary schools of different types ©. 35 20. Contemporary criticisms of the curriculum: the claims of science .. a oe 2° oe ms be aie 39