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IN the third of the series of occasional papers produced by the British Social Hygiene Council, Miss E. Watson makes a well-validated plea that social biology should form part of the curriculum for the training of all teachers and should not be left for the attention of the specialist alone. In teachers training courses the curriculum is traditionally divided into various branches such as principles of education, psychology, history of education and hygiene, and from each of these the social biologist could extract some part which could reasonably be included in a social biology course. This social biology course would develop within the existing course known as health education or hygiene, and, besides studying the functional aspects of the child in order to consolidate positive standards of health, would also consider the child in relation to its environment and society. Miss Watson then gives details of an admirably integrated syllabus which might be included in the curriculum of a university education department year or the second year of a training college course. The paper, which contains a wisely written preface by Prof. E. J. R. Eaglesham, can be obtained from the Secretary, British Social Hygiene Council, Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I, price Is.
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Teaching Social Biology. Nature 164, 98 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164098c0
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