Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 38 No. 9 (24 Jul 1957)
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Education PAST PRESENT FUTURE Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation 1
MODERN FEATURES 1
ADVANCE THE PETITION! 1
USE EDUCATION WEEK TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION! 1
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: Combined Department – Federation Report Released 1 , 2
EQUAL PAY BROADCAST 2
LONG SERVICE LEAVE, TAXATION AND SUPERANNUATION 2
PROMOTIONS LISTS: FEDERATION POLICY 2
"The Forgotten Man-1957” 3
Representatives’ Call For .Action 3
Question of a Teachers’ Club 3
All for the want of a Teacher! 3
Education Week Activities 3
Leave With Pay for N.E.F. Conference 3
SPECIAL FOR DANCERS: EDUCATION WEEK BALL 3
Education JOURNAL OF THE N.S.W. TEACHERS’ FEDERATION 4
THE SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SALARIES CLAIM 4
That Third List! 4
Teachers are Arousing Awareness of Education's Needs 4
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INSPECTION 4
Education Amidst Israel’s Lusty, Turbulent, Tempestuous Life 5
S.A. Law Against Assaults on Teachers 5
Mass Entertainment and Education 5
Strange Stories About Discipline In The United States 5
Technical Education In The Atomic Age 6
Teachers In World Wars: Compiler’s Regrets 6
Advertising 6
Phenomenal Attendances and Enthusiasm Mark Meetings in Support of Salaries Claim 7
EDUCATION IN THE ATOMIC AGE: NEWCASTLE N.E.F. CONFERENCE 7
PROMOTION POSITIONS IN HIGH SCHOOLS 7
DEPUTY HEADMASTERS’ ASSOCIATION 7
TEXT BOOKS AT COST FOR SCHOOLS Director-General’s Statement 7
NEW EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL: FIRST NUMBER SOLD OUT, BUT REPRINTING ORDERED 7
NEWS FROM STEWART HOUSE 7
ELECTION OF COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Notice to Members 7
POSITIONS VACANT SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC HEADSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE 8
GOLF TOURNAMENT 8
FILING CABINETS, RADIATORS, ETC., FOR SCHOOLS 8
W.E.A. LIBRARY CONCESSION RATES 8
NEWCASTLE TEACHERS' COLLEGE REUNION 8
Advertising 8

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Education  

PAST PRESENT FUTURE  

Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission by poet as newspaper.  

Vol. 38—No. 9.  

JULY 24, 1957  

Price: Threepence.  

MODERN FEATURES  

The entrance to the Blacktown High School.  

The Auditorium, Sydney Technical High School.  

(Photographs: Education Dept. Public Relations)  

ADVANCE THE PETITION!  

The Federation asks members  

to initiate an all-out drive for  

signatures on the Australian  

Teachers’ Federation’s Federal  

aid petition during Education  

Week.  

The interest aroused in education  

will make the week an appropriate  

occasion on which to bring the need  

for improved educational facilities  

before the public.  

At present the signing of the petition is  

one of the best ways of assisting to secure  

these improved educational facilities.  

The petition asks the House of Represen-  

tatives to “take immediate action to ensure  

that- sufficient funds are available for each  

State to provide adequate public education  

facilities for its children and people.”  

Individual members can assist greatly by  

becoming active in the collection of signa-  

tures. Associations and school staffs can ad-  

vance the cause of education by bringing  

the petition to the notice of local organi-  

sations and groups.  

The action of several associations in set-  

ting up tables in appropriate public places  

during busy periods, e.g., Saturday morn-  

ings, is commended and recommended.  

USE EDUCATION WEEK TO ADVANCE THE  

CAUSE OF EDUCATION!  

The accession of interest in education which Education  

Week brings will give members golden opportunity to  

inform the public of education’s needs.  

Here are some ways in which members can help the  

cause of educational progress:  

School Visits  

Visits to schools by parents and  

citizens can be made an occasion  

to show, not only the work the  

schools are doing, but also the  

difficulties under which teachers  

work and the defects which are  

unfortunately only too evident in  

most schools. Overcrowding of  

classes—which should not exceed  

maximum of 30—disrepair of  

buildings, inadequacy of equip-  

ment should not go unnoticed,  

any more than should the sterl-  

ing work which will be seen in  

every school.  

The Petition  

It is of extreme importance  

that the A.T.F.’s Federal aid  

petition should be success:  

half million signatures should  

be minimum aim. Members  

can explain the need for Federal  

iid for education and urge visi-  

tors to sign the petition, copies  

of which might be placed con-  

veniently ready for signing.  

June Conference  

Decisions  

Every school staff, every as-  

sociation, should endorse the  

June Education Conference de-  

cisions as published in the last  

two issues of “Education,” and  

inform the Prime Minister, the  

Premier and local members of  

State and Federal Parliaments of  

that endorsement. request to  

local organisations to take the  

same action will assist in bringing  

about the State-wide support for  

the decisions which is of vital im-  

portance.  

Publicity  

Local newspapers and radio  

stations will be interested in edu-  

cation during the week. Local  

educational needs should be pub-  

licised through these channels, as  

well as the need for greater finan-  

cial allocations and for Federal  

aid. In this connection members  

are asked to watch for the  

Federation’s advertisement which  

will appear in the “Sydney Morn-  

ing Herald” and “Daily Tele-  

graph” on Monday, August 5.  

Teacher Shortage  

Publicity should stress the im-  

portance of reducing classloads to  

maximum of 30 and to over-  

come the teacher shortage, and  

that to enable this to be done the  

incentive must be provided in  

adequate salaries for teachers.  

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE:  

Combined Department Federation  

Report Released  

The Minister for Education has released the report  

of the committee representative of Department and  

Federation set up to review and make recommendations  

concerning school discipline.  

The committee was appointed  

at the beginning of 1956 under  

the chairmanship of the Director-  

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General of Education.  

The Minister, in setting up the  

committee, asked that it should—  

♦ Examine the present position in  

schools in regard to the maintenance  

of discipline;  

♦ Report on any features in the  

present situation which constitute  

problems in the maintenance of  

discipline.  

It was intended that the commit-  

tee should submit any necessary  

recommendations on these matters to  

the Minister.  

Federation representatives on the  

committee were: Mr. D. A. Taylor,  

Miss B. Mitchell, Mr. D. J. Brady,  

Mr. E. W. Bray, Mr. F. J. Gibbes.  

HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN  

The problem of school discipline  

has been one of major concern to  

teachers and the Federation during  

the past two years. It was first  

brought prominently into Federation  

discussions in February 1955 when  

the President, Mr. Taylor, submitted  

these two motions to the Executive:  

1. “This Federation, having knowledge of  

school organisational and disciplinary prob-  

lems arising from staff and accommodation  

shortages, and being fully aware of the de-  

terioration in the influence of the home,  

due to the fact that large number of  

families are not properly housed, and in  

many cases both parents go to work, af-  

firms that teachers in their efforts to edu-  

cate and train the rising generation should  

have the fullest support and co-operation  

of the Minister and the Director-General  

and his officers.  

“However, we regret to state that there  

is growing feeling among teachers that  

they are not receiving this support. Head  

office demands for explanations of trivial  

occurrences, inspectorial inquiries into minor  

happenings and the prominence these are  

given in the Press, are making teachers feel  

that they are on uncertain grounds in taking  

steps to maintain order.  

“We, therefore, urge the Minister, in  

conjunction with the Director-General to  

take the necessary steps to clarify the  

position and establish that the teacher has  

the authority to control and protect his  

pupils by taking steps to maintain adequate  

discipline, including the authority to use  

corporal punishment in the prescribed  

manner.”  

“2. That representations be made to the  

Minister requesting him to make state-  

ment to the Press on school discipline.”  

The Executive endorsed the pro-  

posals and submitted them to the  

Council.  

The Council on March 19 adopted  

statement outlining conditions  

affecting discipline and endorsing  

the action proposed in the third  

paragraph o£ the first Executive reso-  

lution.  

Later, “School Discipline” was  

chosen by the associations as the first  

topic for Annual Conference that  

year.  

The Conference resolution particu-  

larised five conditions as causing  

deterioration in school discipline.  

They were: social conditions, deterio-  

ration in school conditions, “popular  

psychology”, distorted publicity, non-  

co-operation by authorities. The  

resolution proposed action for over-  

coming these conditions.  

Considerable press publicity follow-  

ed the Conference decision and dis-  

cussions.  

Shortly afterwards the Department  

submitted its questionnaire on school  

discipline to heads of schools and  

departments.  

Regarding the Department's action  

as unsatisfactory, the Federation then  

submitted questionnaire which  

invited the co-operation of all  

teachers in arriving at conclusions.  

The results of the Federation’s ques-  

tionnaire were published in “Edu-  

cation.”  

Subsequently the Minister an-  

nounced the setting up of the joint  

epartment-Federation committee.  

The report as published has the  

approval of both departmental and  

Federation representatives, and is  

intended as general statement con-  

cerning school discipline. There is,  

however, one matter outstanding •  

the form and content of the official  

instruction to teachers and it is  

at present the subject of discussion  

between the Director-General and  

the Federation President.  

FULL TEXT OF REPORT  

Following is the report as released:  

The maintenance of good discipline in  

school has always been one of the major con-  

cerns of the teacher, and it never can be  

said to be without difficulties most of which  

are overcome by the training, experience  

and wisdom of the teacher. At no stage in  

the history of education in New South  

Wales have teachers been better trained and  

equipped for their tasks, and hence the gen-  

eral competence of teachers to maintain dis-  

cipline in schools is not questioned. It is  

agreed, however, that various factors oper-  

ating today have increased the difficulties  

faced by the teacher in developing and  

maintaining good school tone and in the  

training and disciplining of pupils. Some  

of these factors, moreover, are so disturb-  

ing and their effects in some schools suffi-  

ciently serious to necessitate co-ordinated  

efforts by teachers and the administration,  

with the collaboration of parents and in-  

terested citizens, to control the factors to  

the greatest extent possible and to provide  

the teacher with the best possible conditions  

and support in his task as it affects dis-  

cipline in the school.  

Concept of School Discipline  

Fundamental to the concept of school dis-  

cipline is the idea that the child is  

learner. He receives training that is in-  

tended to develop in him modes of behavi-  

our in thought and action approved by the  

teacher and generally consistent with the  

best standards acceptable to society beyond  

the school. An earlier concept of school dis-  

cipline was that child should be taught  

the rules according to which he should live  

or act in and out of school, and that he  

should be brought under control and com-  

pelled to be obedient to the rules by punish-  

ment, and often severe punishment, should  

he infringe the rules or manifest insubordi-  

nation to them. That is to say the concept  

of discipline was almost completely authori-  

tarian.  

The present concept of school discipline  

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