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Essie Conway
Essie Ruth Conway (24 September 1862 – 19 December 1934) was an educationist who was the head of a Liverpool school and President of the National Union of Teachers in 1918. Life Conway was born in 1862 in "Upper Swinford" which is part of Stourbridge. Her parents were Catherine (born Colvin) and Thomas Conway. Her father was clerk for the railways and then in a corn merchants. In 1904 she became the head of Tiber Street School which was a large experimental school for over a thousand children of all ages. She was a keen member of the National Union of Teachers and she became the President of the Liverpool branch in 1909. In 1918 she was elected President of the National Union of Teachers. Isabel Cleghorn was the only other woman who had taken this role in 1911. In 1920 she was appointed to the consultative committee of the Board of Education to represent the NUT and infant education which became a life-long role. In 1924 the NUT agreed to sponsor a member of parliament irresp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Union Of Teachers
The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NUT members endorsed a proposed merger with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to form a new union known as the National Education Union, which came into existence on 1 September 2017. The union recruited only qualified teachers and those training to be qualified teachers into membership and on dissolution had almost 400,000 members, making it the largest teachers' union in the United Kingdom. Campaigns The NUT campaigned on educational issues and working conditions for its members. Among the NUT's policies in 2017 were: * Fair pay for teachers * Work-life balance for teachers * Against academies * Abolition of National Curriculum Tests (SATs) * One union for all teachers The NUT offered legal protection to its members. The NUT established two financial services companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England, situated on the River Stour. Historically in Worcestershire, it was the centre of British glass making during the Industrial Revolution. The 2011 UK census recorded the town's population as 63,298. Geography Stourbridge is about west of Birmingham. Sitting within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley at the southwestern edge of the Black Country and West Midlands conurbation, Stourbridge includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore,Stambermill, Stourton, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley. Much of Stourbridge consists of residential streets interspersed with green spaces. Mary Stevens Park, opened in 1931, has a lake, a bandstand, a cafe, and a mixture of open spaces and woodland. Bordered by green belt land, Stourbridge is close to countryside with the Clent Hills to the south and southwest Staffordshire and Kinver Edge to the west. Closest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Cleghorn
Isabel Cleghorn LLA (14 March 1852 – 4 December 1922) was a British educationist and suffragist. She was the headteacher at Heeley which is now part of Sheffield and she was the first woman President of the National Union of Teachers in 1911. Life Cleghorn was born in Rochester. Her parents were Mary Ann (born Robinson) and Alexander Cleghorn. She became a pupil-teacher and she was awarded a scholarship to go to London to be trained at Stockwell Training College. She became the headteacher of the Heeley Bank School for Girls when it opened in 1880. The school was in the Heeley area of Sheffield. She soon began a correspondence course with the University of St Andrews for their Lady Literate in Arts qualification which she gained in 1888. In 1896 her book, ''Needlework for Scholarship Students'', was published. This was a book that could be used at Sheffield Pupil Teacher Centre where she had been a teacher of sewing from 1889. In 1907 she began to serve on consultat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Manning
Dame Elizabeth Leah Manning DBE (''née'' Perrett; 14 April 1886 – 15 September 1977) was a British educationalist, social reformer, and Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1930s and 1940s. She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War. Early life Manning was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, the first of twelve children - only six of which reached maturity. Her parents were Charles William Perrett, a captain in the Salvation Army, and Harriet Margaret (nee Tappin), a teacher from Bethnal Green. Her parents emigrated to the United States when she was 14, but decided that she (alone among her siblings) should remain in Britain, and she was looked after by her maternal grandparents, who were Methodists.Leah Manning, ''A Life for Education: An Autobiography'', London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1970; , pp. 20, 43 Leah was influenced by her grandfather's Liberal, radical politics. Early career She was educated at St Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froebel Society
The National Froebel Foundation (NFF) was a foundation which validated examinations and set standards for teaching training courses at pre-school level in the United Kingdom. Named after German educator Friedrich Fröbel, it began in two separate bodies; the Froebel Society of 1874 and the National Froebel Union of 1887. In 1938 the two merged to form the National Froebel Foundation. The National Froebel Foundation continued until 2012 when it merged with the Froebel Educational Institute to form thFroebel Trust The Froebel Trust continues as the UK's charity for the promotion of Froebelian education, funding research, training and educational conferences in the UK and outreach work overseas. The NFF's practitioner network continues as thNational Froebel Network Froebel Society Professor Joseph Payne and Caroline Bishop are credited with founding the London Froebel Society. It was started in 1874 with Adelaide Manning amongst the early members. Caroline Bishop was advising the Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montessori Education
The Montessori method of education involves children's natural interests and activities rather than formal teaching methods. A Montessori classroom places an emphasis on hands-on learning and developing real-world skills. It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. The underlying philosophy can be viewed as stemming from Unfoldment Theory. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement, such as grades and tests. The method was developed in the early 20th century by Italian physician Maria Montessori, who developed her theories through scientific experimentation with her students; the method has since been used in many parts of the world, in public and private schools alike. A range of practices exists under the name "Montessori", which is not trademarked. Popular elements include mixed-age classrooms, student freedom (including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 Deaths
Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. * January 26 – A 10-year German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed by Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic. * January 30 ** In Nazi Germany, the political power of federal states such as Prussia is substantially abolished, by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (''Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches''). ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs the Gold Reserve Act: all gold held in the Federal Reserve is to be surrendered to the United States Department of the Treasury; immediately following, the President raises the statutory gold price from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Stourbridge
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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