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| Description | Correspondence between the NUWT, the Office of the Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald, National Council of Women of Great Britain (NCWGB) and the British Social Hygiene Council regarding the teaching of biology and science (including sex education) in schools.
The correspondence covers:
NUWT protest to Ramsay Macdonald against the exclusion of women from an advisory board of the teaching of biology and against the bias towards teaching of biology to boys in the Government 'Biology Report'
NCWGB concerns over omission of girls education in the Government report on biology
Leaflet promoting Edith Cooper publication (for the NUWT) 'A Science Scheme for Girls'
Agenda for a national conference on 'The place of biology in education and NUWT representation at this conference, 1932
Paper by Edith Cooper on 'Biological Teaching in the Elementary school' - written for conference on 'The place of biology in education', 1932
Expressions of interest in Edith Coopers 'Science scheme for girls' by teachers
Praise from teachers and teacher training colleges for Edith Coopers 'Science scheme for girls'
Press cuttings regarding:
Sex education (also called social hygiene) - including report of talk by Edith Cooper (NUWT) on the subject at meeting of the Wigan branch of NUWT
Teaching of foreign languages in schools
Report of an experiment on a rabbit's heart, conducted by Doctor Winifred Cullis at the London School of Medicine for Women and filmed for educational use in the classroom, 1935
'The Biology Report', article in 'The Woman Teacher', 03/06/1932
Publications:
'Report of an enquiry into the conditions affecting the teaching of science in secondary schools for boys in England', Board of Education, 1925
'Science in senior schools', Board of Education, 1932
'Economic Advisory Committee on Education and Supply of Biologists - report', 1932
'Problems of manhood', by H. R. Newsholme, Medical officer of Health, City of Birmingham, 1931/1932
'National conference on the place of biology in education', 1932
'The teaching of sex hygiene', by Edith Cooper and Mark K Mason, published by National Federation of Women Teachers (later the NUWT), 1919
'A science scheme for girls based on biological teaching', Edith Cooper, NUWT, 1930
'How you were born', guidance notes on explaining reproduction to children, written by Zoe Dawes, NUWT, 1935 |