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Bureau of Education India. Occasional Reports No. 11 Rural School Teachers in the United States of America (Their Preparation and Supervision)

1923

The ruralisation of the normal school curriculum is thus the outcome of a deliberate effort in the face of obstacles to counteract in the public interest the popular demand and in point of fact a majority of teachers now in rural schools have been trained in high schools and county training schools which are more rurally situated. [...] The strongest phase of the teachers' work appears to be in the success with which they are able to project the activities of the school into the home and the home interests into the schools. [...] They reflect in the first place a difference almost a contrast in the requirements for teacherships in rural and urban schools ; and in the second the rural teacher's concern not simply with the work in the school but with the whole life of the neighbourhood. [...] That the preparation of rural teachers must be a special process distinct from that of teachers for urban schools will be made still clearer by considering the views of American edcationists regarding the relation between the rural school and the community it serves and the efforts being made to bring the life of the community into the school and through the school to improve life in the commu [...] The purpose of the school to improve the life of the community c2"30 THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY.
education
Pages
77
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147359
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii H. G. Wyatt view
Preface
i-ii H. G. Wyatt view
Chapter I. The Rural Teacher and Her Training
1-14 H. G. Wyatt view
Chapter II. Practice Work in Training for Rural Teacherships
15-27 H. G. Wyatt view
Chapter III. The School and the Community
28-46 H. G. Wyatt view
Chapter IV. Rural School Supervision
47-70 H. G. Wyatt view
Index
71-72 H. G. Wyatt view

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