Sammlung Naturwissenschaftlich-pädagogischer Abhandlungen

Abstract

THE volume contains eight essays dealing with various scientific subjects—chemistry, natural history, &c.—from the schoolmaster's point of view —that is to say, the writers are concerned with the organisation of the school curriculum and with the problem of how to make their respective subjects appeal to boys, or, perhaps, as a German would prefer to put it, how to make scientific instruction educative. Whilst the essays are entirely independent of each other, several of them are written from the Herbartian standpoint, which means that a writer on chemistry in the school is not satisfied with discussing the question of his immediate business—giving the boys an understanding knowledge of chemistry—he must also discuss the relation of the subject and the method of its presentation, to the formation of character, under which head much that the average Englishman would take for granted is somewhat sententiously set forth.

Sammlung Naturwissenschaftlich-pädagogischer Abhandlungen.

Edited by Prof. O. Schmeil Prof. W. B. Schmidt. Bd. ii. (Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1908.) Price 12 marks.