H. E. Armstrong and the teaching of science, 1880-1930
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H. E. Armstrong and the teaching of science, 1880-1930
(Cambridge texts and studies in the history of education)
At the University Press, 1973
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Note
Bibliography: p. 155
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Originally published in 1973, this is a selection of the educational writings of H. E. Armstrong, edited with a full introduction by W. H. Brock. Henry Armstrong (1848-1937) was a controversial and energetic publicist for reforms in science teaching and curricula. He was concerned to make teaching at all levels less didactic and authoritarian, more practical and experimental; where possible a student should be prompted by his own curiosity, and should learn things first hand. He called his approach 'heuristic' - meaning learning through discovery - and sought to establish it through public platforms like the British Association, schools and through his own training of teachers. In his introduction Dr Brock offers a historical critique of Dr Armstrong's methods and achievements, and considers to what extent he can be seen as a progenitor of subsequent curriculum reforms.
Table of Contents
- Note on the selections
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Editor's introduction
- 1. Our need to honour Huxley's will (1933)
- 2. On the teaching of Natural Science as a part of the Ordinary School Course and on the method of teaching Chemistry on the Introductory Courses in Science Classes, Schools and Colleges (1884)
- 3. Suggestions for a course of elementary instruction in Physical Science (1889)
- 4. The aims and practice of teaching Chemistry (1897)
- 5. The Heuristic method of teaching or The art of making children discover things for themselves. A chapter in the History of English Schools (1898)
- 6. Mosely Educational Commission (1904)
- 7. Sanderson of Oundle. The fundamental problems of school policy and the cult of the turned up trouser hem (1924)
- Notes to introduction
- Notes to texts
- Bibliography
- Index.
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