EARLY THEORIES OF TEACHER EDUCATION.

This article focuses on the early system of teacher training in Great Britain. The first training schools in England were located in the central model school of the British and Foreign School Society, established in Borough Road in 1808. Local teachers would visit the model school for short periods and then return to their own schools to try to apply what they had learnt of the mechanics of teaching children by the monitorial system of education. This rudimentary method of teacher training lasted until the late 1830s. The article also discusses the ideas of the pioneers of teacher education in Great Britain. The main concern is to delineate the varying concepts of teacher training which found expression during the 1830s and 1840s. Here for the first time in modern educational literature one finds various philosophies of education worked out in great detail both in theory and practice.