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The training of teachers in the United States of America

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Amy Blanche Bramwell
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A pair of scholars tour United States schools and colleges to investigate teacher preparation, reporting on state normal schools, city normal and training schools, and local training classes. They contrast academic and professional emphases, describing curricula that combine classical study with laboratory science, manual training, and library resources. The account examines pedagogical instruction such as psychology, history of education, methods courses, and practice teaching in model schools, together with systems of examination and certification. Observations also consider the supply of teachers, effects of local management, and illustrative materials and experiments seen at higher institutions and educational exhibitions.

Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.

PREFACE

In view of the growing interest in secondary education in England, and the important educational problems demanding solution, the Gilchrist Trustees decided, in the early part of 1893, to send five women teachers to America for the purpose of studying and reporting upon Secondary Schools for Girls and Training Colleges for Women in different parts of the States. The Trustees made their intention widely known, and invited the governing bodies of the various women’s colleges and associations of teachers to submit to them names of persons specially qualified. Out of the list of able and experienced women teachers thus furnished to them, the Trustees, after careful consideration of the qualifications of the numerous candidates, selected the following five: Miss Bramwell, B.Sc., Lecturer at the Cambridge Training College; Miss Burstall, B.A., Mistress at the North London Collegiate School for Girls; Miss Hughes, Lecturer on Education at University College, Cardiff; Miss Page, Head-Mistress of the Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls, Stamford Hill, N.; and Miss Zimmern, Mistress at the High School for Girls, Tunbridge Wells. They were awarded travelling scholarships of one hundred pounds each to enable them to spend two months in the United States in prosecuting their enquiries. The five scholars visited America in the summer of 1893, and submitted to the Trustees carefully prepared Reports, two of which—viz., those by Miss Bramwell and Miss Hughes—are presented to the public in this volume. The Trustees have aided in the publication of these Reports because they believe that a knowledge of the educational systems and experiments which have been tried in America cannot fail to be of interest and value to those engaged in teaching in the United Kingdom.

R. D. ROBERTS,
Secretary to the Gilchrist Trustees.

Gilchrist Educational Trust,
    17, Victoria Street, London, S.W.
            1894.