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Education as a University Subject.

Appendix L.

Programme, of Course in Training Colleges.

For the sake of comparison with the Course of Lectures detailed in Appendices B, C, and D, a statement is here given of the professional course of study in Training Colleges under the New Syllabus of the Education Department. The course annexed is that given in the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College during the sessions 1882 and 1883; but similar courses are given in all the Training Colleges in England and Scotland. The course extends over two sessions of nine months each.

I.	—Practice of Education.—The Students spend two hours per week in the Normal Practising Schools, teaching classes under the direction of the Master of Method, listening to and reporting on Model Lessons by the same Master, and criticising under his guidance, or that of the Principal, prepared lessons given by their fellows.
II.	—Instruction In School Management.—One hour per week is devoted to oral instruction in this subject, given partly by aid of a text-book (Fitch's Lectures on Education). Care is taken to connect this instruction with the practical work noted above.
III.	—Principles Of Education As A Science.—A course of Forty Lectures, on Logic, Psychology, and Ethics as applied in Education. The subjects are treated nearly in the manner and order shown in Appendices F and G, which see. In addition to the lectures the treatise of some authority in education is studied, explained, and criticised. In this way the following works have been read, Locke's Thoughts on Education (1881), Herbert Spencer's Education, Moral, Physical, and Intellectual (1882), and Professor Bain's Education as a Science (1883).
IV.	—History Of Education.—A course of Twenty Lectures on Modern Education; Ascham, the Jesuits, Comenius, Milton, Locke (3 lectures), Rousseau, Pestalozzi (3 lectures), JacotOt, Bell, Lancaster, Fröbel (3 lectures), Arnold, Stow (2 lectures).

All the lectures are reproduced by the students, and carefully examined and corrected. Test examinations are held quarterly, and oral examination is frequent. The lectures are fully illustrated in a way which is as yet possible only in Training Colleges.

A specimen of the Examination Paper set by the Education Department will be found in Appendix K.

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