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iv. education and mental culture.
Training Colleges for infant school teachers (småskoleseminarium). The
examination for infant school teachers is taken at special training colleges,
that are erected either by the State, or by the county councils (landsting), or
by private persons who have been officially authorized to this. These Colleges
are under the superintendence of the Elementary Schools Board and besides
under the control of an inspector who is appointed by the same authority. As
teacher no one may be employed, unless the Elementary Schools Board has no
remark on his fitness. A training college of this kind must be connected with
an infant school for the purpose of giving the pupils practice in teaching.
There are two State Training Colleges for infant school teachers, one for the
training of teachers, male and female, who have to know the Lapp language,
the other for teachers in the Finnish-speaking districts of Sweden. The course
of instruction lasts three years. At the present there are 27 other Training
Colleges for infant school teachers, intended for the training of women teachers
in infant schools. The majority of them have a two years course, the shortest
allowed course being eight months.
The subjects are: Scripture, Swedish, Arithmetic, History, Geography, Natural
History, Pedagogics, Copybook writing, Drawing, Singing, Gymnastics, and Sloyd.
The examination is superintended and directed by a member or a delegate of the
Elementary Schools Board. The majority of teachers trained in these colleges
(about 70 ’/•) teach in the infant schools. Also they can be employed to teach
in smaller elementary schools — that being so particularly in the most northern
parts of the country — or as assistant teachers. In the capital the teaching
in infant schools is in the hands of female elementary school teachers, excepting
some schools in a quarter of the town, where infant school teachers are entrusted
with this teaching.
Each elementary school must have at least one regular (ordinarie)
teacher. Only fully qualified elementary school teachers are entitled to
apply for this post. The applications are submitted to the School Board,
who may examine one or more of the applicants, afterwards placing
three of the names on a nomination list in order of merit. The election
is made by the Yestry Meeting.
A regular elementary school teacher cannot be deprived of his post
except for flagrant incapacity, unwarrantable neglect of his duties, p?
gross misconduct. In such a case he receives a warning from the School
Board. It is only after he has neglected to act on that warning that
the School Board can dismiss him. The teacher can appeal from the
warning and from the dismissal to the Diocese Board (stiftsstyrelsen),
and ultimately to Government.
The non-regular teachers are: "extra-ordinarywho teach in elementary
schools proper and are fully qualified elementary school teachers; assistant
teachers (biträdande), who exceptionally teach in elementary schools
proper, but are not fully qualified elementary school teachers; teachers
in smaller elementary schools and infant schools, who need only have
the qualifications of infant school teachers; finally special teachers
(instructors) for the technical lines. The non-regular teachers are engaged
by the School Board conditionally for a certain period, or
provisionally-However, as regards teachers in infant schools, the Yestry Meeting and
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