DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 107, 30 January 1920, Page 7

DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION

SYLUips DEFINED,

By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 29. At to-day's session of the University Sniate, Dr. Anderson moved the following report from the committee on the Diploma of Bdueation:—(l) "Thera shall be a diploma in education to students of the university who (a) havo graduated in arts or science, or who havo kept terms in na fewer thnn four subjects in these coureses at an affiliated college; (b) who have pursued a course of training approved by tli<> university; and (c) have eumplied wirh the conditions hereinafter defined. >2\ The diploma shall testify that the candidate ha'= passed through general • professional training in the principles and practice of education in vhich cour;es shall be arranged that they may he taken in preparation for either primary or secondary teaching. (3) Subjects for nil candidates for tho diploma shall be: (ai Psychology, logic, and ethics, as applied to education; (b) principles of education and their.practical application in relation to primary and second-.vy schools; (c) principles and methods of class teaching and management; (d) development in outlino of educational theory and practice from the end of the eighteenth century; (e) school and persoml hygiene. (4) The diploma shall be awarded after examination in the subjects of clause 3, but not until the candid tin has produced satisfactory evidence of having pursued a practical course in tto principles and method'; of class teaching and management for at least one academic year in the caso of a candidate who has qualified to graduate befoie his candidature, and of at least two academic years in the caso of all other candidates; nor until ho has produced similar evidence of having pursued a sufficient rourse in the methods of physical training and in the methods of voice management and articulation. Such practical courso to bo recognised must be pursued at a training college for teachers recognised, by tho Education Department or in connection with school education, at an affiliated college., (a) A diploma villi distinction may be awarded to a candidate who (a) has graduated in arts or science; (b) presents evidence of having attained a high standard in the subjects required for tho diploma, including the, practical courso in tho training associated therewith'; fc) passes a further examination in the history of education, including the history of educational svstems and applications of biology and physiology to hygiene and physical training; and (d) presents a thesis to the satisfaction of the examiner cmlwdyiug the results of original research work on some educational prol>lem. ((I) A candidate who has given evidence of sperial acqu-iiiitimce with methods of teaching ..nnlicablo to anv pnrtjcuhir class of school or any particular department of school work shall bo entitled to have the fact endorsed on his diploma, but no such endorsement shall be made in respect of subjects of general secondary education unless the enndidato is a graduate. The committee also recommends Hint teachers of education in university colleges be requested to redefine Hie subject of education for D.Aand to define the subjects in clauses 3 and ii, and report to iho April meeting of the Senate."

Dr. Anderson said that tho syllabus of education now proposed was nrnctieally the same as iliat: moposed by tho Board 1 of Studies in 1018 and adopted by Hi" Senate

'I'lip rr-norl was ndoptel. Vr. T'"Mn ,<-lipH">v (I\p university intpmlpd tn nnHinrire Ilk nfip of lotlers after Hip name, of :i trnrliov ivlio liml oilln!,ip(l n dinlnnin rf rcliicntinn. T)r. Anderson: T don't think so. Mr. Tib'vi: You will flml teachers will ««'> soniolliiim. It was decided Hint the diploma, of cdiioalion statute should come into effect lliis year.