Hadow (1931)

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Preliminary pages Membership, Analysis, Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1 The history of the development of the conception of primary education
Chapter 2 The physical development of children between the ages of 7 and 11
Chapter 3 The mental development of children between the ages of 7 and 11
Chapter 4 The age limits for the upper stage of primary education
Chapter 5 The internal organisation of primary schools
Chapter 6 Retarded children in the primary school
Chapter 7 The curriculum of the primary school
Chapter 8 The staffing of primary schools and the training of teachers
Chapter 9 The premises and equipment of primary schools
Chapter 10 Examinations in primary schools
Chapter 11 Summary of principal conclusions and recommendations
Chapter 12 Suggestions on the curriculum of primary schools
Appendix I List of witnesses
Appendix II Physical development of 7-11 year olds (Harris)
Appendix III Mental development of 7-11 year olds (Burt)
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Ability
provision in free place examination for various types of 10
range of 3 5 6

Acts
Factory acts 1
Mines acts 1
Elementary Education Act 1870 1 4
Elementary Education Act 1880 1
Elementary Education Act 1900 1
Education Act 1902 1 7
Education Act 1918 1
Education Act 1921 6
Mental Deficiency Acts 6

Adaptation of buildings 9

Advisory officers 8

Aesthetic development 3 7 12

All-age schools 4 5

Amentia 2

Anthologies 12

Anthony and Coupin 2

Appreciation 3 12

Aptitudes, special 12

Aquariums 12

Arithmetic 12

Arnold, Matthew 1

Arrangement of arithmetical computations 12

Arrested development of skeletal growth 2

Art, elementary 12

Art galleries 9

Articulation 7

Assembly halls 9

Association of Education Committees 4 8 10

Association of Municipal Corporations 4 8

Attention 3

Auditory aids to teaching 9

Backward children (see also retarded children) 6

Barrington, Dr Shute (Bishop of Durham) 1

Basketry 12

Bell, Rev Dr A 1

Bellairs, Rev HW 1

Bernard, Sir Thomas 1

Bibles and biblical anthologies 12

Binet 3

Birchenough, Mr C 1

Birmingham 3

Body build, variations in 2

Books
binding of 12
provision of 9 12

Boots, drying of 9

Boy Scout geometry 7 12

Brain, development of 2

'Breaks' 4

Bridges, Dr Robert 7

Bright pupils, provision for in primary schools 4 5

British and Foreign School Society 1

British Psychological Society 5

Broadcasting 9 12

Brougham, Lord 1

Building regulations 1 9

Buildings
see Premises

Burt, Prof Cyril 3 12 App 3

Cartilage 2

Causes of retardation 3 6

Central Association for Mental Welfare 8

Central schools 1

Character training 12

Characteristics of children 2 3

Child guidance 7

Child Guidance Clinics 6

Cinema, effects of 3
see also Films

Circular, the Board's of 28 January 1925 (1350) 4

Class libraries 9 12

Class teaching 12

Classification of children
according to body build 2
according to mental capacities 3 5
at the age of eleven 10
at the time of transfer from infant school 5 10
of retarded children 6

Classrooms, care of 12

Clothes, drying of 9 12

Cobbett, William 7

Cockerton Judgement 1

Coeducation 3 5

Colour 12

Combined schools 4

Commissions and committees, reports of official
The Newcastle Commission 1858-1861 1
The Cross Commission 1886-88 1
Departmental Committee's Report on the Teaching of English in England 12
Departmental Committee's Report on the Training of Teachers (1925) 8
Report of the Joint Committee on Mental Deficiency (1929) 6

Common schools 7

Composition
see Written composition and Oral expression

Compulsory examinations 10

Conclusions and recommendations 11

Conferences between primary and secondary schools 4

Constructive activities 3 7 12

Constructive imagination 3

Contents of children's minds 3

Convalescence 2

Cook, Rev. FC 1

Cooperation between the two sections of primary education 4

Corporate life 12

County Councils Association 4 8 10

Coupin
see Anthony and Coupin

Courses for teachers
of retarded children 8
third year 8
vacation 8
weekend 8

Craftwork 7 12

Cupboards 9

Curiosity 3 3

Curriculum
examinations and the 10
for retarded children 12
in primary schools 7
suggestions on teaching of the various branches of 12

Cursive writing 12

Dancing 7

Deductive reasoning 3

Dementia 2

Design 3 12

Desks 9

Detection of retardation 6

Dialect 12

Dictation 12

Diseases of childhood 2

Dramatic work 3 7 12

Drawing
and historical work 12
experiments on aesthetic development by means of 3
spontaneous 3 12
teaching of 7 12

Drying clothes and boots 9 12

Ductless glands
see Glands

Dull or backward children
see Retarded children

Educable defective children
see Retarded children

Education circles 8

Education Department 1

Efficiency of schools, testing of 10

Eliminative examinations 10

Emotional qualities of children 3

Endocrine glands
see Glands

English
in schools in wales 12
the teaching of 12

Environment, influence of 3 6 12

Equipment 9

Eurhythmia 7

Examinations 10
see also Compulsory examinations, Eliminative examinations and Free place examination Extraneous causes of retardation 6

Fatigue, physical and mental 3

Fatigue and weariness 3

Films 9
see also Cinema

Final certificate examination 8

Findlay, Prof JJ 1

Foreign language 12

Fraser, Rev J (afterwards Bishop of Manchester) 1

Free place examination 4 10

Froebel 1 4

Function of the primary school 5

Games and physical exercises
differentiation for sexes in 2 3 5 12
playing fields for 9
teaching of 12

Gardening 12
see also School gardens

Genital type of growth 2

Geography 7 12

Geometrical reasoning 3

Geometry, simple 7 12

Germany 7

Gesell 3

Gill, John 1

Glands 2

Grammar 12

Gramophones 9 12

Group teaching in rural schools 5

Group work 7 12

Hall, Prof Stanley D 3

Handicraft
for retarded pupils 12
history and 12
teaching of in primary schools 3 7 12

Handwriting 7 12

Harmony 3

Harris, Prof HA 2 App II

Head teachers
of primary schools 8
of small rural schools 8

Health education 12

Hearing 3

Height and weight of children 2

Helpers 12

Higher elementary schools 1

Higher grade schools 1

Higher mental capacities 3

History 7 12

Holland 1

Home and Colonial Society 1

Hygiene
see Health education

Illustrations 9 12

Imagery and ideas 3

Imitation 3

Individual attention in rural schools 5

Individual methods 12

Inductive reasoning 3

Inert ideas 7

Infants
age of break between the two sections of primary education 4
in rural schools 4
methods of teaching in infant schools 4 5
schools 1
separate departments for 4

Innate causes of retardation 6

Inspectorate 8

Instincts 3

Instructions to inspectors 1

Intelligence tests
group 3 10
use of for classifying infants 10
use of in oral tests 10

Interests 3 7 12

Internal organisation of primary schools 5

Junior divisions 1

Junior 1 4

Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir james 1

Lancaster, Joseph 1

Language
English 7 12
Welsh 12

Lantern, magic 9

Less retarded children 6

Lettering 12

Literature 7 12

Lloyd, Dr 3

Loans to uncertificated teachers 8

Lockers 9

Logical criticism 3

London Teachers Association 5

Lovett, William 1

Lowe Code
see Revised Code of 1862

Lowe, Robert 1

Lymphatic glands
see Glands

Lymphoid type of growth 2

Magic lantern 9

Manners 7 12

Manual dexterity and skill 3 7

Maps 12

Mathematics 7
see also Arithmetic and simple geometry

Mayo, Rev 1

Meals
conduct of school 12
facilities in schools for taking 9

Medical inspection, separate room for 9

Medical Officers of Schools Association 5 9

Melodic taste 12

Melody 3

Memoranda, pamphlets, etc., official
The New Prospect in Education (1928) 1 4
Memorandum on Scholarships and Free Places (1928) 10
Memorandum on Educational Tests for Admission to Secondary Schools (Wales) (1930) 10

Memory 3

Memory drill 3

Mental development in children 3

Mentally defective children 6

Metalwork 12

Methods of teaching in primary schools 12

Mill, James 1

Mills, RW 2

Mixed departments 1

Modelling 12

Monitorial schools 1

Monitors 1

Montessori 4

More retarded children 6

Morrison, Thomas 1

Movement 3

Muscle sense 3

Muscular development 2

Museums 9

Music 7 9 12

Musical appreciation 3 12

National Association of Inspectors of Schools and Educational Organisers 5

National Federation of Class Teachers 5

National Society 1

National Union of Agricultural Workers 9

National Union of Teachers 4 5 10

National Union of Women Teachers 3

Nature walks 12

Needlework 7 12

Nervous system, development of 2

Neural type of growth 2

New Education Fellowship 3 5

Nomenclature page iv

Numbers, simple properties of 12

Nursery schools and classes 4 7

One stage examinations 10

Open air
classwork and activity 7
principle applied to premises for primary schools 9

Oral expression 7 12
Oral tests 10

Owen, Robert 1

Parents
associations 7 12
cooperation between schools and 12
stimulating the interest of 10

Pattern making 3 12

Peripatetic teachers 8

Pestalozzi 1

Pets 12

Physical causes of retardation 6

Physical culture 7

Physical development of children 2

Physical training and games 7 12
see also Games and physical exercises

Physical welfare and efficiency 7

Piaget, Dr Jean 3

Piano playing 12

Pianos 9 12

Pictures
see Illustrations

Plato 7

Play, children's 3

Playing fields 9

Playroom for young children 9

Poetry 12

Practical activities, rooms for 9 12

Premises 9 12

Preparations for examinations 10

Preparatory schools 10

Presentation of subjects 3

Primary education
cooperation between other stages and 4
existing arrangements for 4
historical treatment of 1
relation between the infant and secondary stages and 4 7

Primary schools
aim and scope of 4 12
curriculum in 7
establishment as educational unit of 4 5
historical treatment of 1

Print script 12

Private reading 12

Probation of teachers 8

Project method 7

Psychological data and evidence
bearing on the age of transfer from infant schools 4
regarding the need for separate schools 4
regarding children between seven and eleven 3
regarding retarded children 6

Public libraries 9

Pupil teachers 1

Range of intelligence 3

Raup, Prof RB 7

Reading
aloud 7 12
silent 12
spontaneous 3

Reasoning 3

Recapitulation theory 3

Recommendations and conclusions 11

Records, school 10

Relations, perception of 3

Religious education 12

Reorganisation of schools
benefits derived from the 5
premises and the 9
progress of 1 4
teachers and the 8

Reports on pupils
leaving infant departments 6
to parents 10 12

Reproductive imagination 3

Rest, facilities in schools for 2 5 12

Retarded children
curriculum and methods of teaching for 12
definition of 6
main causes of retardation 3 6
provision in primary schools for 5 6
teachers for 8

Revised Code of 1862 1

Rhythm 3 12

Rigg, Rev JH 1

Rural schools
break at seven in 4
facilities for taking meals in 9
methods of teaching in 7 12
organisation in 5
retarded children in 6
teachers for infants in 5
training of teachers for 8
supplementary teachers in 8
uncertificated teachers in 8
use for probationary experience 8

Sanitary arrangements 9

Scholarships 1
see also Free place examination

School
gardens 12
kitchens 9 12
libraries96,
life 1
records 10

School Medical Officers Association 5 9

Science 7 12

Scotland 7

Script writing 12

Secondary schools, cooperation with primary schools 4

Senior divisions 1

Senior schools 1

Sensory capacities 3

Separate departments for infants and older children 4

Sex differences
bearing of in physical exercises and games 12
in intellect and emotions 3
in play 3
in reading 3
in touch and movement 3
skeletal 2

Sites for new primary schools 9

Size of classes
for normal children 5 8
for retarded children 7

Skeletal type of growth 2

Sleep, lack of 3

Songs 12

Spasitsch, VJ 7

Spearman, Prof CE 3

Special aptitudes, assessment of 10

Special schools 6

Specialist system in primary schools 8

Speech and speech training 7 12

Spelling 12

Staff meetings 4

Staff notation 12

Staffing of primary schools 8

Standardised scholastic tests 3 10

Statistics 1

Stereoscopes 9

Stow, David 1

Stratification theory 3

Study of nature 12

Sub-normal children
see Retarded children

Subjects
approach to in the primary school 3 7
of the free place examination 10

Suggestibility 3

Supplementary courses 8

Supplementary teachers 8

Tables, arithmetical 3 12

Teachers
allocation of young 8
for primary schools 8
for retarded children 8
immobilisation of 7
supplementary 8
training of 8
uncertificated (see also Head teachers) 8
visiting 6 8

Teaching practice 8

Teaching proficiency, facilities for improving 8

Team work 12

Three Rs 7

Time charts 12

Tool subjects 7

Touch 3

Training colleges
and teaching practice in small rural schools 8
and provision for uncertificated teachers 8
courses in 8

Training of teachers 8

Transcription 12

Transfer between the two sections of primary education 2 4 5

Transfer from primary to secondary schools 4

Transition between the two sections of primary education 4 5 8 12

Uncertificated teachers 8

Urban areas, retarded children in 6

Vacation courses 8

Vision 3

Visits to places of interest 3 7 9

Visits of teachers to schools 5 8

Visual aids to teaching 9

Visualisation 3

Vocalisation 7

Wales 12

Washburne Dr 7

Water
provision of drinking 9
provision for washing of hot 9 12

Weaving 12

Weekend courses 8

Welsh
see Language

Wet clothes and boots, treatment of 9 12

Whitehead, Prof 7

Willm J 1

Winnetka 7

Wittich W 1

Woodwork 12

Written composition 12