NEW EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE
Arranged by THE AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
AUSTRALIA
AUGUST 1—SEPTEMBER 20, 1937
“ Education for Complete Living
—The Challenge of Today ”
Federal Parliament House, Canberra.
PATRONS
His Excellency LORD GOWRIE, V.C., G.CLM.G., C B , D.S.O., Governor General of Australia
ns Excellency the Honorable SIR PHILIP W. STREET, K.C.M.G., Lieut. Governor of New South Wales.
His Excellency the Right Honorable LORD HLfNTINGFIELD, K.C.M.G.. Governor of Victoria.
His Excellency Colonel the Right Hon. SIR LESLIE O. WILSON, P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., CjM.G., D.S.O., Governor of Queensland.
is Excellency Major-General SIR WINSTON DUGAN, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.. Governor of South Australia, s Excellency the Honorable SIR JAMES MITCHELL, K.C.M.G.. Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia.
His Excellency SIR ERNEST CLARK, K.CS„ U.R.Iv. Governor of Tasmania.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS Rt. Hon. J. A, LYONS, P.C.,
Hon. B. S. B. STEVENS .Premier of New South Wales.
Hon. A. A. DUNSTAN, Premier of Victoria.
Hon. W. FORGAN SMITH, Premier of Queensland.
Prime Minister of Australia.
Hon. R. L. BUTLER, Premier of South Australia.
Hon. J. C. WILLCOCK, Premier of Western Australia.
Hon. A. G. OGILVIE, K.C., Premier of Tasmania.
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS
The Right Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY. The Right Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF ADELAIDE.
The Right Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE. The Right. Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF PERTH.
The Right Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF BRISBANE. The Right. Hon. THE LORD MAYOR OF HOBART.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
FRANK TATE, C.M.G., I.S.O., M.A., President Aust. Council for Educational Research.
R. E. PRIESTLEY. M.C., M.A.. I.).Sc., Vice chancellor University of Melbourne.
PROFESSOR H. T. LOVELL. M.A.. Fh.D., Professor of Psychology University of Sydney.
PROFESSOR A. MACKIE, M.A., Professor of Education University of Sydney.
J. McRAE, M.A., Former Director of Education. Victoria.
ORGANISING SECRETARY
K. S. CUNNINGHAM. M.A., Ph.D., 145 Collins Street, Melbourne, C.l.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE FOLLOWING IS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED:
The Commonwealth Government.
The Government of New South Wales.
The Government of Victoria The Government of Queensland The Government of South Australia.
The Government of Western Australia.
The Government of Tasmania.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The Headmasters’ Conference of Australia, New Zealand Conference Committee.
NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETIES SUPPORTING THE CONFERENCE:
Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.
Australian Chemical Institute.
Australian Federation of University Women.
Australian Federation of Women Voters.
Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Australian Institute of Political Science.
Australian League of Nations Union.
Australian Veterinary Association.
Australian Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgy.
Australasian Institute of Secretaries.
British Medical Association in Australia (Federal Council).
Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Austra
lian Universities.
Dental Association of Australia.
Federated Pharmaceutical Service Guild.
Federated State School Teachers’ Associa
tion of Australia.
Headmasters’ Conference of Australia.
Institute of Engineers, Australia.
Institute of Surveyors National Council of Women.
National Young Men’s Christian Association.
National Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion.
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
Standards Association of Australia.
The State Departments of Education have given helpful advice and full co-operation in preparing for the Conference. The Directors of Education have been invited to attend the meetings of the General Committee held in their own State so that they may take part in any discussions upon local arrangements and be kept informed as to developments in other States.
The illustrations contained in this booklet have been supplied through the courtesy of the National Travel Association of Australia.
The Committee acknowledges the generosity of the proprietors of The Herald
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Place BRISBANE SYDNEY CANBERRA MELBOURNE HOBART ADELAIDE PERTH
DATES FOR MEETINGS
Date August 4th to 6th August 9th to 16th August 18th to 20th August 24th to 31st Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st September 3rd to 9th.
September 14th to 18th
Name and Address of Local Secretary Mr E. A. Payne, Education Dept., Brisbane.
Dr. H. S. Wyndham, Education Dept., Sydney.
Mr K. Binns, National Library, Canberra.
Mr L. G. Whiteoak, Teachers’ College, Carlton, Mr H. T. Parker, Teachers’ College, Hobart.
Mr H. M. Lushey, Teachers’ College, Adelaide.
Dr. H. L. Fowler, The University, Perth.
Prior to the Australian meetings, a session will be Held in New Zealand. Information will be supplied by Dr. C. E. Beeby, Southern Cross Building, Brandon Street, Wellington, C. 1.
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PROGRAMME
GENERAL THEME: "Education for Complete Living—The Challenge of Today"
T
HE material progress of the world has been such that many millions of people have been released from the necessity for giving all their time and energy to securing a mere livelihood. This material and scientific progress has completely changed the conditions of life, both national and international, and has at the same time revealed the human race as being spiritually unprepared for the new world order.Universal schooling and increased leisure for adults provide the opportunity for raising the general level of human life to heights never yet attained. But what
kind
of life—individual and social—should we aim at, and what procedure should we adopt in order to realise these aims?
These questions constitute today’s challenge to education.
DETAILED PROGRAMME
The arrangements in each of the capital cities will vary somewhat, but will follow the same general plan, viz: —
MORNING.—Several lecture courses will be conducted simultaneously, each lecture will be followed by discussion.
AFTERNOON.—Varied programme including excursions, demonstrations, symposia, etc.
EVENING.—Lecture by prominent visitor on some topic of general educational interest.
The following represents the general range of topics which, so far as practic
able, will be covered by the meetings as a whole. It does not necessarily give the actual titles of lectures or groups of lectures. At each of the local sessions attention will be con
centrated chiefly, but not exclusively, on certain sections of the programme.
1. The School and Society.
The place of the school in modem society.
The school and the State.
The school and controversial issues.
The school and international affairs.
The school and the world of work.
The school and the home.
Religious education.
2. Problems of Control, Organisation and Administration.
Centralisation versus decentralisation.
Inspection of schools.
Examinations.
Educational and vocational guidance.
3. Aims and Methods in Modern Education.
Basic principles in the making of school curricula.
Pupil-activity in modern education.
Individual methods of teaching.
The radio in education.
The film in education.
The importance of the school library.
4. Education of the Whole Man — The Problem of Increased Leisure.
The place of art in the school and in the community.
Music and the school.
Games and extra-curricula activities.
The education of the hand, eye and ear.
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5. The Education of the Adolescent.
Secondary education for all.
The problem of differentiation and selection.
The secondary school and the university.
Technical education.
The youth movement.
6. The University.
Its place in the community.
Control of university policy.
Methods of teaching at the university level.
Comparisons between Australian, Euro
pean and American universities.
7. Adult Education.
The part of the university in adult educa
tion.
Has adult education followed too closely university aims and methods?
Education authorities and adult educa
tion.
The library as the medium of adult education.
The radio and adult education.
8. Rural Education.
The school and the rural community.
Recent changes in rural life and condi
tions.
The curriculum of the rural school.
9. Physical Education and Health.
Does physical education receive enough attention?
The relationship between physical and mental health.
The health of the school child.
Methods of medical inspection and treat
ment.
10. The Psychology and Mental Hygiene of the Child.
The pre-school child. Home care and training.
The nursery school.
The importance of the child’s emotional life.
Problem children.
Delinquency, its treatment and preven
tion.
The education of the backward child.
The education of the gifted child.
11. Teacher Training.
The freedom of the teacher.
Appointment and promotion of teachers.
Teachers and parents.
The training of teachers.
The continued education of teachers.
Teachers and educational research.
The teacher as guide.
STUDY GROUPS.—In addition to the general programme it is probable that study groups will be arranged at the meetings in most of the capital cities. These groups which will be conducted by specially selected overseas speakers, will be limited to members of the Conference. A small additional fee will be charged.
Applications for the detailed programme in each of the cities should be addressed to the local secretaries.
(See Page
3).PAGE FIVE
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SPEAKERS:
(NOTE.
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The following distinguished,educationistshave sofar (Dec., 1936) been invited as speakers at the Conference. In all cases except those marked thus (x) a definite acceptance has been given. If some of the invited speakers are unable to attend, other names will be substituted).Board of Education.
The Board of Education, England, has undertaken to send an official represen
tative to the Conference. The name of the speaker will be announced later.
Dr. William Boyd.
Head of Department of Education, Glas
gow University. Author of “History of Western Education,” “Measuring Devices in Composition, Spelling and Arithmetic,”
“America in School and College,” etc.
Dr. Edmund de S. Brunner.
Professor of Education, Teachers’ Col
lege, Columbia University. Director of various surveys, including missions to Korea, India and Egypt. In charge of departments of rural sociology and of adult education at Columbia. Author of numerous books on various aspects of rural life.
Dr. L. D. Coffman.
President, University of Minnesota, U.S.A., since 1921. Formerly Dean of
Sydney Harbor Suburbsand
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the College of Education, University of Minnesota. Past president of National Society for Study of Education and various other national educational bodies.
Trustee of Carnegie Corporation of New York. Author of several books on education, and editor of Journal of Educational Administration and Super
vision.
Mr. E. Salter Davies, C.B.E., M.A. (Oxon.).
Director of Education, Kent. Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; President (1924) Association of Directors and Secretaries for Education;
President Library Association of Great Britain. Author of “The Aim of Educa
tion,” “The Re-organisation of Education in England,” etc.
Dr. Edmund Day (x).
Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, New York.
Economist and statistician.
Dr. Paul L. Dengler.
Director, Austro-American Institute of Education, Vienna. Twice Visiting Car
negie Professor to American Universi
ties. Director, International Students’
Camps, 1911-1914. Vice-President Home and School Federation.
Mrs. Beatrice Ensor.
Chairman and Organising Director, New Education Fellowship. Formerly inspec
tor Board of Education, England. Has established schools conducted on experi
mental lines. Founded N.E.F. in 1915.
Collins Street, Melbourne.
Russell Falls, National Park, Tasmania.
tration. Has conducted numerous school surveys. Author of '“Teachers and Teaching,” part-author of “Problems in Educational Administration."
Dr. Hu Shih.
Professor of Philosophy, University of Peiping. Graduate of Columbia Uni
versity, New York. Past-President of China Institute. Founder Chinese Liter
ary Revolution Movement. Correspond
ing Member Prussian Academy of Learn
ing. Has taken prominent part in de
velopment of Institute of Pacific Rela
tions.
Dr. Susan Isaacs.
Head of Department of Child Develop
ment, Institute of Education, London University; Psychologist to London Clinic of Psycho-analysis: Chairman Education Section British Psychological Society, 1929-31. Author of “An Intro
duction to Psychology,” “Intellectual Growth in Young Children,” “Social Development in Young Children,” etc.
Dr. H. R. Hamley.
Professor of Education, Institute of Education, London University. Educa
tional experience in Australia, India, United States and England. Contributor to Year Book of Education.
Dr. F. W. Hart.
Professor of Education, University of California. Specialist in school adminis-
Dr. I. L. Kandel.
International Institute of Teachers' Col
lege, Columbia University. Editor of the Educational Year Book since its incep
tion in 1924. Author of “Comparative Education” and other publications.
Recognised as a world authority on com
parative education.
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League of Nations (x.)
The Secretary-General of the League of Nations has been asked to arrange for the attendance of a speaker as an official representative of the League. The mat
ter is being sympathetically considered.
Mr. A. Lismer, A.R.C.A.
Educational Supervisor, Toronto Art Gallery. Vice-Principal Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1920-26.
Dr. E. G. Malherbe.
Director, National Bureau of Education, Pretoria. Author of various studies on education in South Africa. Member of Commissions on the Poor White Prob
lem and on Native Education.
Dr. Cyril Norwood.
President, St. John’s College, Oxford.
Formerly Headmaster of Harrow. Author of “The English Tradition of Education,”
“The English Educational System,”
“Higher Education of Boys in England.”
President of the State University, Mos
cow. The leading exponent of educa
tional philosophy in the Soviet Republic.
Author of “The New Education in the Soviet Republic.”
Mr. P. E. Meadon, C.B.E., M.A.
Director of Education, Lancashire. For
merly Director of Education for Essex.
Sir George Newman (x).
Formerly Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, London. One of the world’s most noted authorities on the health of the school child.
North Terrace, Adelaide.
Prof. A. P. Pinkevitch (x),
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Dr. Harold Rugg.
Professor of Education, Teachers’ Col
lege, Columbia University. Organising Director of the N.E.F. in the United States. Author of “Statistical Methods in Education,” “The Child-Centred School,” “American Culture and Educa
tion,” “American Life and the School Curriculum,” etc.
Dr. R. Schairer (x).
Kings College, London University; for
merly of Germany. An authority on educational developments in Europe.
Contributor to the Year Book of Educa
tion.
Rt. Hon. V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, P.C., C.H.
Vice-Chancellor, Annamalai University, India. Distinguished statesman, scholar and orator. Has acted as official Indian delegate at League of Nations and at a number of important Conferences.
Mr. Yusuke Tsurumi, M.P.
Has acted as Japanese delegate at numerous international conferences as well as at six of the conferences of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Has lec
tured extensively on Japan at American Universities. Author of 43 books written in Japanese and seven written in English.
Mr. Anders Vedel.
Principal Krabbesholm Folk High School, Denmark. Lecturer and writer on historical and economic subjects. Dur
ing last ten years has lectured on the Danish Folk High School movement at seven different educational conferences.
Dr. A. N. Whitehead (x).
Professor of Philosophy, Harvard Uni
versity, since 1924. Formerly Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College of Science. Author of “Science in the Modern World,” “The Aims of Education,” “Progress and Reality,”
Adventures of Ideas,” “Nature and Life,” etc.
Mr. L. Zilliacus.
Headmaster of Experimental School, Helsingfors, Finland. Member of Execu
tive Committee of N.E.F. For seven years on staff of Bedales School, England.
Graduate of Cornell University and of .Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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THE NEW EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP
Chairman
MRS BEATRICE ENSOR Executive Board of World Movement
Dr. William Boyd Mr. Wyatt Rawson.
Head of the Department of Education Joint Organising Director of the New Glasgow University, Scotland. Education Fellowship.
Prof. F. Clarke.
Director, Institute of Education, London University.
Mrs. Beatrice Ensor.
Chairman and Organising Director, New Education Fellowship.
Dr. Adolphe Ferriere.
Founder of
Pour VEre Nouvelle,
Switzerland.
Mile. Amelie Hamaide.
Director of L’Ecole Nouvelle, Brussels.
Prof. Dimitre Katzaroff.
University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Mr. A. Lismer.
Director, Toronto Art Gallery, Canada.
Mr. A. J. Lynch, J.P.
Chairman of the Tottenham Education Committee, London.
Dr. E. G. Malherbe.
Officer-in-charge, National Bureau of Education, South Africa.
Rektor G. Mattsson.
Headmaster, Stockholm, Sweden.
Prof. Jean Piaget
Director, Bureau International d’Educa- tion, Geneva.
Prof. Henri Pieron.
College de France, Paris.
Dr. Elisabeth Rotten.
Formerly Co-editor of
Das Werdende
Z
eitalter,
Switzerland.Dr. Harold Rugg.
Professor of Education, Columbia University, New York.
Dr. Carson Ryan.
Department of Indian Education, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Dr. Robert Ulich.
Harvard University, Mass.
Dr. Edna Noble White.
Director of the Merrill Palmer School, Detroit, U.S.A.
Rektor Laurin Zilliacus.
Headmaster, Tolo Svenska Samskola, Helsingfors, Finland.
VICE-PRESIDENTS OF WORLD C
onferencesThe Late Prof. C. H. Becker.
Formerly Minister of Education for Prussia.
Prof. Paul Langevin.
College de France.
Prof. Sir Percy Nunn.
Director Institute of Education, London.
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PAST AND PRESENT PRESIDENTS, ENGLISH SECTION, N.E.F.
Sir Michael Sadler.
Master, University College, Oxford.
Prof. Sir Percy Nunn.
Director Institute of Education, London.
Mr. E. Salter Davies.
Director of Education for Kent.
Prof. R. H. Tawney.
London School of Economics.
Prof. J. H. Nicholson.
Principal of University College, Hull.
The new Education Fellowship is the one existing educational organisation of world-wide scope. With its headquarters in England it has 51 national sections and groups which pub
lish 23 magazines in 15 languages. It acts as a permanent working laboratory in which new developments in educational thought and practice in different lands can be exhibited and discussed throughout the world. It maintains friendly personal contacts between educa
tional thinkers and practitioners in different countries and thus contributes notably to the feeling of human solidarity among those engaged in education.
The new Education Fellowship is non-political and non-sectarian. It is not confined to the interests of the teacher alone, but taking the child as its centre,' it concerns itself with all the influences that bear upon him. “Two groups alone are excluded a priori from its membership. One is that of the fanatics who think they have no more to learn or to experience; the other that of the frightened who wish to keep themselves and their friends insulated from dangerous contacts and dangerous thoughts.”
Since the war the International Headquarters of the N.E.F. has arranged seven World Conferences as follows:—Calais, 1921; Montreux, 1923; Heidelburg, 1925; Locarno, 1927;
Elsinore, 1929; Nice, 1932; Cheltenham, 1936. From 1933 to 1936 Regional Conferences have been held in Norway, South Africa, St. Andrews (Scotland), Mexico City, Tokyo,
Utrecht. i
MEMBERSHIP IN THE N.E.F.
It is fully anticipated that the Australian Conference will greatly increase local interest in the New Education Fellowship and its activities. Facilities will be provided at the time of the Conference for those who might wish to join the international organisation. In the meantime the organising secretary will gladly supply information on the various forms of membership. Subscriptions may be forwarded at any time to The Secretary, New Educa
tion Fellowship, 29 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I., England.
It must be emphasised that those who pay the fee for attendance at the Australian Con
ference do not thereby become members of the N.E.F. Similarly those already holding membership in the N.E.F. are required to pay the fee for the Conference.
THE NEW ERA
The New Era is the monthly magazine published by the N.E.F. for parents and teachers.
It contains articles by leaders of educational thought, and descriptions of progressive move
ments in education. It deserves a wide circulation in Australia where there is at present a lack of educational journals of a purely professional character. The regular annual sub
scription to the New Era is 8/-, post free, but as a special gesture during the Conference year, and in order to make the journal more widely known Australian subscribers may re
ceive the New Era for one year at the rate of 5/- or 6/3 in Australian currency. Subscrip
tions sent to the local secretaries or to the general secretary will be forwarded to London.
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Perth, looking across the Swan River.
REGISTRATION FOR CONFERENCE
Australian registrations are to be made with the secretaries for the local sessions. (See Page 3).
The following are the membership fees for the various meetings: —
Brisbane 10/6 Melbourne £1/1/ Adelaide £1/3/
Sydney £.1/1/ Hobart 10/6 Perth 10/6
The payment of the fee indicated entitles the member to attend all meetings and lectures (apart from any specially arranged excursions or study circles) at the session in question.
It has also been arranged that any person paying a membership fee of £1/1/ will be entitled without extra charge to the privileges of membership for the meetings in any or all of the cities named above. Those persons proposing to attend the meetings in more than one State should indicate their intention in the registration form.
If accommodation permits, attendance by those not holding full membership will be pro
vided for at the rate of 5/- for all meetings in any one day, or 2/- for a single lecture.
Registration should be made as early as possible, and in any case not later than 30th June, 1937, since it is important for local secretaries to be able to gauge the size of audiences.
Each full member will receive a registration card and a membership badge. The regis
tration card can be used as proof of membership in such matters as claiming railway con-
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cessions if these are provided for.
The membership badge must be worn at
allmeetings, otherwise the ordinary fee for attendance at a single lecture will be charged.
The registration card will also act as a receipt for the subscription. The badge and the card will be posted to each member at least two weeks before the commencement of the session for which the fee is paid.
In most of the States arrangements are being made to encourage organisations which are likely to provide fifty or more members for the Conference to carry out their own regis
trations. Special concessions are to be allowed when this is done. Individuals belonging to associations which undertake this work may obtain registration forms from the secretary of the association in question. They may forward the required membership fee to the association which will later send all moneys collected, together with completed registration forms, to the secretary for the local Conference meeting.
In all other cases completed registration forms should be addressed direct to the secre
tary for the local meeting (See P. 3) together with the necessary remittance. Cheques should be made payable to The Secretary, N.E.F. Conference, Brisbane (or Sydney, Mel
bourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, as the case may be). Exchange should be added to country cheques.
A full register of members is necessary because it is hoped to make the printed report of the Conference available at greatly reduced charges to those who wish to obtain it.
Any person finding it necessary to cancel a registration may receive a refund of the membership fee—minus a small amount for clerical expenses—provided application is made before registration card and badge are issued.
Announcements concerning Study Groups (See P. 5) will be made later.
OVERSEAS REGISTRATIONS
Overseas visitors intending to become members of the Conference are required to regis
ter with The Secretary, New Education Fellowship, 29 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.l, not later than 1st May, 1937. Only in this way can advantage be taken of the travelling concessions which it is expected to obtain.
The official travel agency for the Conference is Thos. Cook and Son, through whom all arrangements are being made.
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