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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
required to teach chiefly in the lower classes; c) exercise-masters, who
give instruction in Drawing, Music, Gymnastics, and Military Drill. —
The total number of teachers during the school-year 1899—1900 amounted
to 1,022, viz.: 79 principals, 207 lectors, 529 adjuncts and colleagues,
and 207 assistant masters. Thus there was one teacher for every
seventeen pupils. Besides these teachers, there were 252 exercise-masters.
The Scientific College in Gothenburg.
The number of teaching hours a week required of a principal at a higher
college is 12 — 16, of a principal at a lower school 20—24, of a lector 18—22,
and of an adjunct or »colleague» 24—30. — In the lowest class instruction is given,
as far as feasible, by a single teacher, in the next three higher classes likewise br
one or two, or at most four. From the fifth class upward, the system of one
teacher for each subject or group of subjects prevails.
The Qualifications for becoming teachers in the public colleges are as
follows. As regards theoretical knowledge, lectors are required to have gained
the doctor’s degree in the philosophical faculty at a university. Adjuncts etc.
only the »candidates» (master’s) degree in the same faculty. As regards practical
experience, both lectors and adjuncts must have passed a probationary rear
(Profår).
Courses for the Probationary Year are arranged at Stockholm, Uppsala, and
Lund; it must be completed during two consecutive terms. The number of those
who go through it annually is SO. The work embraces a theoretical course in the
theory and history of pedagogics, and a practical course consisting in attending
and performing instruction in the various classcs of the college.
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