Education -- Norway; School management and organization -- Norway
There are still other features worthy of consideration. Incidents of
historic interest are not only pointed out and studied but the scenes of
these are actually visited. Here again we see the definite way in which
history and geography are correlated. Too, since Norway has been
favored by the gift of many literary geniuses, most historic characters
and events have found place in literary classics. All along the way,
songs, poems, and dramas having relation to national history are brought
into the instruction in a living, real way. The children are given
abundant opportunity to attain proficiency in relating historic events
with information gained from the fields of geography, language, and
literature.
_Nature Study_
_Aim._ Instruction in nature study attempts to awaken the children's
interest in and regard for nature in all its expressions, and to
exercise their thought powers and judgment so as to enable them to find
or make connections between cause and effect. In order that their
attention be centered upon the suitability to purpose, conformity to
law, harmony and beauty, the children should have their thought directed
to nature's creation and maintenance. Finally, the children through this
instruction should obtain a conception of how mankind attempts to
control nature and to utilize its strength in the promotion of human
welfare.
_Materials for instruction._ Our bodily structure in the large or whole,
as necessary to an understanding of the general conditions in man's
physical life and as fundamental to instruction in health. The more
important native and foreign animals and plants; their growth and life,
together with their importance in nature's economy. The natural forces
which have greatest significance for organic life and for man's
efficiency.
_Methods of instruction._ Natural objects or representations of them in
model or drawing, and operations of natural forces illustrated by
experiments observed and written up. The accuracy of observations are
tested by the pupil's oral or written accounts of what they see.
Conditions and things familiar to the children in common life are the
ones to be used above all others.
_Class IV._ (One hour weekly.) Short synopsis over our bodily structure
(four hours). Present by oral instruction and through illustrative
materials the skeleton, muscles, digestive organs, skin, circulation,
respiratory organs. The same points may also be studied as they appear
in the lower animals.
_Mammals._ (Twenty hours.) Horse, ass, cow, sheep, goat, reindeer, deer,
elk, camel, cat, wild-cat, lion, tiger, dog, wolf, fox, marten, bear,
swine, elephant, seal, whale, hare, rabbit, squirrel, rat, beaver,
anteater, bat, monkey.
_Fowls._ (Ten hours.) Tame chickens, woodcock, sparrow, yellow hammer,
bullfinch, lark, swallow, starling, dove, cuckoo, parrot, hawk, falcon,
eagle, owl, heron, stork, duck, goose, swan, gull, ostrich, and others.
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