The Training of Technical Teachers

Board of Education Teachers and Youth Leaders. Report of the Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Education to consider the Supply, Recruitment and Training of Teachers and Youth Leaders, London: H.M.S.O., 1944, 108.

Board of Education Teachers and Youth Leaders. Report of the Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Education to consider the Supply, Recruitment and Training of Teachers and Youth Leaders, London: H.M.S.O., 1944, 108.

Shanks Michael The Innovators. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, 261. The sub-title of the book is “The Economics of Technology”.

Op. cit., 28.

From 1889 until 1949 technical education in New South Wales was administered by the Department of Public Instruction (later Education). The Superintendent of Technical Education was until the latter date a subordinate of the Director of Education.

Technical Education Commission. Report to the Hon. B. S. B. Stevens, M.L.A. (Premier of New South Wales) on the Technical Education System of New South Wales. Sydney: Government Printer, 1935. The Commission was appointed on 24th October, 1933, and presented its report on 31st May, 1934. The Report as noted was not printed until 1935.

The members of the Commission were Alexander James Gibson, an engineer, who was the chairman; James McIntyre, and Alek Walter Hicks, a public servant. Associated with the inquiry were G. R. Thomas, Director of Education, James Nangle, Superintendent of Technical Education, F. A. Bland, lecturer in Government at the University of Sydney, Keith Butler of the Broken Hill Proprietary Coy. Ltd., Henry Gissing, and John Winning, President of the Technical Teachers' Association.

Op. cit., 26.

New South Wales, Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 189. Thirty-fifth Parliament, Third Session, Wednesday, 30th March, 1949, 1750.

In recent years some of the electives offered have included An Introduction to Sociology, Anthropology, Australian Government and Politics, History of Ancient Greece, Geology, Introduction to Economics, and Biology.

Richardson J. A. Bowen J. (Eds.) The Preparation of Teachers in Australia. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1967, 201.

Richardson J. A. Bowen J. (Eds.) The Preparation of Teachers in Australia. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1967, 202–3.

Cf. the remarks of Richard Peters in Chapter 7 of his Authority, Responsibility and Education. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1965, 86ff.

Cf. the remarks of Richard Peters in Chapter 7 of his Authority, Responsibility and Education. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1965, 88–89.

The Preparation of Teachers in Australia, 21. Cf. Also Whitehead's statement: “The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical: that is, no education which does not impart both technique and intellectual vision.” Whitehead A. N. , The Aims of Education and Other Essays. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1932, 74.

In Cowan R. W. T. (Ed.) Education for Australians. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1964, 152.