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| Description | Folder containing cuttings and articles on nursery school design split into sections called circulars and basic information, articles and notes, nursery education meetings and conferences and nursery education references. The circulars and basic information section comprises 4 pamphlets:
Nursery Education Circular No 2/73, Department of Education and Science, London, 1973.
A Guide to War-Time Nurseries, The Nursery School Association of Great Britain, London October 1941.
Nursery Centres for Children in Reception Areas, Circular from the Board of Education and the Ministry of Health, London January 1940.
Nursery School Buildings and Equipment, The Nursery School Association of Great Britain, London 1930.
There is then a section on articles and facts including an article on 'The Crisis of Confidence in Nursery Expansion' published in Education (9th May 1975), and written by Aher Cashdan, and, papers submitted by the United Kingdom to the Council of Europe Symposium (December 1991) regarding 'Pre-School Education - Aims, Methods and Problems'.
Other material in the folder includes:
'Playgroups' (Education Digest, 29th January 1977)
Notes on nursery education meetings and conferences, 1972-1973
Details of the George Street Project focusing on 'The Provision of Nursery Classes in Hemel Hempstead' with a leaflet on childrens nursery and plan council in that area, 1967
A case study on 'Building Performance' at Abronhill Nursery, Dunbartonshire
Copy of The Architect's Journal (14th February 1973)
Copy of Education (22nd November 1974)
A list of nursery schools and notes on suppliers
A list of publications on the design and building of nursery schools and examples of layout plans
Nursery education references including extracts from The Architect and Building News (13th November 1936), and, a copy of Education (19th January 1973)
Notes on the training of nursery/infant teachers. |