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APPENDIX VI. 



POSITION OF BIOLOGICAL TEACHING IN SECONDARY 

 SCHOOLS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 



Secondary Schools in France. 



Every boy and girl studies both animal and plant biology to a substantial degree, 

 including human physiology and hygiene. The work is co-ordinated with that in 

 Physics and Chemistry. 



The following Table is compiled from data given in Horaires Programmes Instruc- 

 tions 1925, Enseignement Secondaire (Colin, Paris, 1925), in which syllabuses also are 

 given. 



Table I. 



Scheme showing hours per week allotted to Natural Science subjects, in Lycies et Colleges 

 des gargons. Ages 10 or 11 to 17 or 18. 



On the modem side a second hour per week is allotted under VI. and V. for 

 practical work in Biology. 



The same scheme obtains for Lycees et Colleges des jeunes filles, except that in 

 II, I, and Philosophie, half an hour less is allowed for practical work in Physics and 

 Chemistry. 



Secondary Schools in Prussia. 



H Every boy and girl studies both animal and plant biology to a substantial degree, 

 ■ including human physiology and hygiene. The work is co-ordinated with that in 

 Physics and Chemistry. 



There are four types of 9-year secondary schools for boys and four for girls ranging 

 in each case from the predominantly classical school with Latin and Greek (Gymnasium 

 and gymnasiale Studienanstalt) through those with Latin, but not Greek (Real- 

 gymnasium, Reformrealgymnasium, realgymnasiale Studienanstalt) to those with 

 neither Latin nor Greek (Oberrealschule, Oberlyzeum der Oberrealschulrichtung, 

 Lyzeum, and Oberlyzeum). In each type Biology is one of the fundamental subjects. 

 Thus it is included in all during the three junior years, from the age of 10 to 13, a good 

 level of attainment being reached. During the two following years it gives place to 

 Physics. It is then resumed together with Chemistry, and leads to human physiology 

 and general and sex hygiene (age 15-16 years). Further work, leading to a greater 

 appreciation of its cultural and economic aspects, is carried out in »11 the schools, and 

 in the Oberschule aspects are included demanding a more thorough knowledge of 

 Chemistry. The following Table is adapted from Richtlinien fuer die Lehrplaene der 

 hoeheren Schulen Preussens, herausgegeben von Richert (2 Baende) (Berlin, Weidmann, 

 1927), which also gives outline syllabuses. 



