This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum
undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and
the Board of Education for the City of Toronto. Three
sub-committees, dealing with English, Social Science, and Physical
Science, here present preliminary reports which indicate the need
for perpetual study if the school curriculum is to be kept abreast
of modern developments in each discipline. Committee members
responsible for the reports are themselves elementary, secondary or
university teachers of experience. Their recommendations, embracing
all grades up to and including Thirteen, are specific, stimulating
and controversial. They are unanimous only in their concern that
necessary changes be made and that study of the curriculum be
continuous and objective. The reports are prefaced by a discerning
essay written by Northrop Frye, Principal Frye points out that "the
real barriers to break down were those between the three major
divisions of education, the primary, secondary and university
levels, each of which tends to become a self-enclosed system,
congratulating itself on its virtues and blaming whatever
deficiencies the educational process as a whole may have on the
other systems." This book will be of interest to teachers at all
levels, to officials, responsible for policy in our public
education, to trustees, to parents, and to the increasing number of
general public who care about education. The Chairmen of the three
committees were: English, Mary Campbell (Parkdale Collegiate
Institute); Social Science, C.B. Macpherson (Department of
Political Economy, University of Toronto); Physical Science,
Charlotte M. Sullivan (Department of Zoology, University of
Toronto). The Editor, Northrop Frye, is Principal of Victoria
College, University of Toronto.
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