Abstract
No more hopeful indication of the growing desire on the part of British teachers to improve the methods of instruction in our schools could be desired than this little volume provides. It is particularly gratifying to find that the old insular prejudice is giving place to an intelligent study of foreign educational systems, and that it is at last becoming recognised there is much to be learnt from Continental pedagogic authorities. Miss Reynolds was, in 1897, awarded the Travelling Studentship for Teachers in connection with the University of Wales, and her report, which she presented in 1898 to the Court of this newest of our Universities, demonstrates conclusively that she made the best use of her opportunities. Equipped with the information provided by a wide course of reading in the geographical literature of the countries she intended to visit, Miss Reynolds was able to intelligently note all the features of Swiss and Italian teaching practice which would prove of assistance to our own teachers, and she has here set them down in a clear and interesting manner. Her book should be read by every teacher of geography.
The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and North Italy.
By Joan Berenice Reynolds. Pp. xii + 112. (London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1899.)
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The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and North Italy . Nature 61, 126 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061126b0
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