400 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— L. 



them, either direct through its central film library or indirectly through 

 a trade organisation. 



5. Methods of other countries. 



6. Commission on Educational and Cultural Films. 

 Recommendation for establishment of permanent central organisation 



which would advise and aid production. 



Discussion on The film in education. (Dr. F. Consitt ; Miss 

 Mary Field.) 



Demonstration of silent and sound sub-standard films by the 

 Western Electric Co., Ltd., R. C. A. Photophone Ltd., and 

 Ensign Ltd., of films arranged and recorded in collaboration 

 with British Instructional Films Ltd. 



Discussion on The film in education. (Prof. J. L. Myres ; Mr. J. L. 

 Holland, with reference to report of the committee on educa- 

 tional and documentary films.) 



Summation. (Mr. G. T. Hankin.) 



Afternoon. 

 Visit to St. Peter's School. 



Friday, September 2. 



Presidential Address by Mr. W. M. Heller on The Advancement of 

 Science in Schools : its magnitude, direction and sense. (See p. 209.) ^ 



The Scope and Equipment for Science Teaching in Senior Schools 

 (including Rural Schools) : — 



Mr. F. J. Thorpe. — The teaching of science in senior schools, with 

 special reference to work in a county area. 



Increased attention to history of Science has evoked a philosophy of science 

 teaching based on that study. The slogan ' Science is Measurement ' has 

 gone, and the ' Heuristic Method ' broadened into en iphasis on the unique- 

 ness of Science as first-hand investigation into everyc lay problems presented 

 to appeal to the child's sense of values though not nc :cessarily to the adult's. 

 Lesson plans devised on these lines must com mence with everyday 

 problerns or with model-making, the work must be generally experimental 

 and individual and the instructions so framed that th le maximum of personal 

 effort IS required from the pupil. An attempt sh- juld be made to form a 

 provisional hypothesis and test this by further expei iments and applications. 

 Qualitative investigations are more suitable than quantitative for pupils 

 from II to 15 years of age. Careful records shoi dd be made and precise 

 use of terms developed, as this forms part of the cultural value of science. 

 In scattered county areas this work has to be atte mpted in existing school 

 buildings. An ordinary class-room may be ad? pted with little expense. 



i>T ' ^^ ^'^f absence of the President owing to an accic' .^nt, the address was read by 

 Mrs. Cosslett-Heller. The Chair of the Section was taken bv Dr \ W. Picl«ird- 

 Cambridge. *^ ^ .^ 



