282 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1920. 



Mr. Dunkerley, with the assistance of the Chairman, Bishop Welldon, and the 

 Secretary, Lady Shaw, to undertake the task of drawing up such a book. The 

 Committee entertain the strong opinion that the handbook, while supplying 

 information upon various aspects of municipal and political life, should aim 

 especially at inculcating the unselfish patriotic spirit which would, as they 

 believe, go far towards preventing, or at least mitigating, the industrial contro- 

 versies now threatening to undermine the basis of society. 



The Selected Syllabuses. 



In response to their inquiry into the work now carried on in various educa- 

 tional institutions, the Committee received a number of syllabuses and notes of 

 lessons which may be of use and which will certainly interest the members of 

 Section L. 



The difficulty has been to decide which to reproduce when so many were 

 of equal value. Those appended have been selected because they inchide special 

 points not common to all. 



Examples of Courses in Citizenship. 



Sir Robert Baden-Powell's scheme needs no comment by the Committee. 

 Its practical value has been thoroughly tested and proved. It is reproduced as 

 Appendix II. 



Appendix III. contains the following : — 



A. The Devon County Education Committee's Report, 1911. Suggestions as to 



moral instruction and training in citizenship. 



B. The Hammersmith syllabus supplies an example of the short intensive 



courses for which many schools made inauiry. 



C. That from Blackley. Manchester, is admirable as showing how the schoolboy 



may be trained to be a good citizen and patriot in the widest sense of the 

 word. 



D. Caerau Mixed School. Bridgend, gives its syllabus of lessons, and the school 



self-government scheme by girls and boys working together. 



E. The Roath Park Boys' School. Cardiff, sets out (1) a Citizenship scheme 



taken as part of history, (2) the Prefect system, which includes self- 

 government, and (3) an experiment in Scoutcraft as a school subiect. 



F. The syllabus from First Derry (Ireland^ Boys' School is a specimen of courses 



in Civics followed in certain Irish National Schools. 



G. That from Stobswell School is a specimen from Scotland. 



Schemes of School Management. 

 Appendix IV. contains the following : — 

 Skerton Council School. Lancashire; the statement is long, but has great value 



as that of a school having a 'constitution.' 

 Cowley School, St. Helens, Lancashire. This account is written by a boy at 



school. 

 Penarth County School, Wales. This is written by a girl at school. 

 Roath Park Boys' School : Section on the Prefect system. 

 Roath Park Boys' School : Section on Scoutcraft. 

 High School, Glasgow, describes a system of Prefects. 



Appendix V. gives Lord Lytton's Sugerestions for Organising Regional Study 

 and Maintaining a Permanent Regional Record. 



Appendix VI. — Mr. Valentine Bell : Notes of Lessons in Regional Survey. 



A circular letter was sent on December 12, 1919, to the Secretaries of the 

 Head-masters' Conference and to the Associations of Head Masters. Head Mis- 

 tresses, Assistant Masters, Assistant Mistresses, Private-school Masters, Private 

 Schools, Science Masters, and Training Colleges, asking them to bring the 

 matter to the notice of their members. It was also sent to Newnham and 

 Girton CoUegeB. 



Of these the Committee of the Head-masters' Conference agreed ' to print 

 tb^ ptatpment cpntained jn the Jetfer in tjaeir ^nnina^ Bulletin ' in February 



