The Year Book of Education 1936
Published in association with the University of London Institute of Education :Author: Evans Bros., Ltd., Russell Square, London. 35/-. PP. 1,016.
Some indication of the scope of this valuable Purvey may be gathered by a summary of its Contents. Part One consists of “A Review of ost-War Education,” and includes sections on ^ ‘ Comparative Study of European Educap0lV’ Juvenile Unemployment and Vocational uidance. and a ” Review of Educational ^ nought.” Part Two deals with the present ^ministrative educational position in the United ^lngdom, and has Reviews of Education in the orninions, the United States and Africa. In art Three?”Problems of Educational Policy” r~there is a section on the ” C ” Child, and on Juvenile Deliquency. Part Four consists of Statistics and Finance.” Lord Eustace Percy contributes a Preface, and the Introduction is written by Professor Percy Nunn, Director of the University of London Institute of Education.
Part Three contains matter of special interest to those concerned with the retarded child. It includes a chapter on ” The Backward Child:
Some Psychological Considerations ” by Dr. Lucy Fildes, four chapters on methods of education for backward children, diagnosis and causes, etc., by Dr F. J. Schonell, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, and a chapter on ” Administrative Problems and the ‘ C ‘ Child.”
Here we may, perhaps, be allowed to make one criticism, viz., that in Dr Schonell’s reference to the need for special training of teachers of backward children, he appears to have entirely overlooked the provision made by the Short Courses organised for the Board of Education by the Central Association for Mental Welfare and by the Association’s annual ” Long Course ” in London. At any rate they are not specifically mentioned, although their adaptation to the needs of teachers of backward children in ordinary Elementary Schools, as distinct from Special Schools, has been a marked feature of the courses during recent years.
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