Some phases of educational progress in Latin AmericaMontgomery, Walter A. (Walter Alexander)
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Some phases of educational progress in Latin America
Montgomery, Walter A. (Walter Alexander)
Education -- Latin America
(_l_) Institutions of bibliography and information be established,
independent of or annexed to seminaries or institutes, for
investigation existing or to be founded in America, and providing for
the widest exchange of economic, financial, and commercial information
collected.
(_m_) The practice of the professions receiving diplomas from higher
institutions of commercial learning in commercial, civil, and
administrative matters be legally recognized.
(_n_) An extraordinary prize to be known as the Pablo Fontaina Prize
for Commercial Studies be offered for students of higher institutions
of commercial learning. (Sr. Pablo Fontaina is director of the Superior
School of Commerce of Montevideo and played a prominent part in the
organization and work of the congress.)
(_o_) Entrance into consular and diplomatic services be granted by
competitive examination or to candidates presenting degrees issued by
official institutions of higher commercial learning.
(_p_) Courses of ethics in preparatory studies and lectures on
commercial ethics in higher institutions of commercial learning
delivered by distinguished professional men be established.
TRAINING OF TEACHERS.
Uruguay has always been progressive in this field. In 1914 Señorita
Leonor Hourticou, the directress of the Normal Institute for Girls,
submitted to the national inspector of primary instruction a
far-reaching and systematic plan of reform in the aims and methods of
practice teaching. She urged the establishment of a general directorate
of teachers’ practice training, composed of directors of normal
institutes and the national technical inspector of schools, which
body was to operate through a salaried secretary. Practice teaching
for the first grade was to be required for one year with a minimum of
160 sessions and for the second year for at least three months with a
minimum number of 60 sessions. Twelve schools for practice teaching
were to be established at Montevideo. Local inspectors were to be
appointed by the general directorate. While this scheme was not enacted
into law, yet it had very great value in focusing the attention of the
educational authorities upon the practical problem of reorganizing
practice teaching.
These recommendations were allowed to lapse; but along with the
demand for improved schools went a similar one for the improvement of
the schools in towns and villages. In 1916 a committee of which the
directress of the Normal Institute for Girls was chairman was appointed
to formulate a training course for nonrural teachers which should be in
keeping with the recognized needs of modern schools. In October, 1916,
it presented as its report an outline of studies recommended to be
incorporated in the three years’ training course for primary teachers.
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