1907: The Practice of Instruction

This is not a post about Barak Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction, although there are some connections.
It is a book edited by J.W Adamson called: 'The Practice of Instruction: A manual of method general and special".
It was published in 1907, at a time when A. J Herbertson was the Honorary Secretary of the GA, and features contributions from Herbertson himself. He also had assistance, as with many books, from his wife Florence who co-authored several texts with him. He starts by defining geography in terms which are familiar to us now.

Here, he precedes the lists created by E. D Hirsch with some 'expected minimum knowledge' of a 12 year old.



You can view the chapter yourself by following this link to the Internet Archive, where many tens of thousands of old books have been digitised. I have drawn on this resource while creating this blog. A future post will outline some of the other resources that I have extracted from, to add to the story of the development of the GA as well as telling a brief story about each GA President.

In this final paragraph from the chapter, Herbertson talks about the value of geography, and in particular how its study helps to develop global citizens.



I'd be interested in anyone's views on this book, and its enduring principles which persist today.

References
Book (Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/practiceofinstru00adamuoft/page/218

Jay's article on Herbertson:
JAY, L. J. “A. J. Herbertson : His Services to School Geography.” Geography, vol. 50, no. 4, 1965, pp. 350–361. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40565960.