Pervaja naucnaja sessija Akademii Pedagogiceskih Nauk SSSR (First Scientific Session of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences).

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of some 50 papers read at the first scientific session of a Soviet teacher training group. In the section on educational history and theory, papers were read reviewing the history and progress of public education and teacher education in the past 50 years in the Soviet Union. Meeting of the section on teaching methods heard papers read on progress achieved for a half-century and also on some of the urgent current problems of teaching in secondary schools. Two papers dealt with the problems of improving the content of school education in the light of contemporary progress, in science, technology, and culture. Questions of polytechnical education at the current stage of progress was the theme of another presentation. At meetings of the section on psychology and the physiology of the growing child, papers were discussed showing Soviet achievements since the Revolution, and charting intensive investigations for the future. Personality training, educational psychology, perceptivity, preschool training, and other complex aspects of the teaching and learning processes were covered by erudite presentations in these specialties. (Author/GDB)