UA-R-GC-1914-01-01-1934-11-16_Page-065

ist (g) The Department of Education in Transjordania subscribes for 3 copies. (h) The Department of Education in Tripoli (North Africa) sub-scribes for one copy. The above facts, indicate that the Journal is read by a very selected group in the 8 Arabic-speaking countries mentioned. II. The School of Education. On May 25, 1934, the American University at Cairo conferred the degree of B.A. in Education upon three graduates of its School of Education. This marked the first time in the History of Egypt that such a degree was granted. The course leading to this degree is an entirely new feat in this country. Built on the modern theories of education, and adapting what is considered best in American education to the situation in Egypt, this course has opened to these graduates the gates of the new science of education, the marvels of modern educational psychology, experimentation and philosophy, and the wealth of material available. These graduates had already obtained their diplomas from the Higher Teachers' Training College of the Ministry of Education, but their knowledge had not gone far beyond the rudiments of old fashioned pedagogy and the rehearsal of that they already had in the academic courses of the secondary school. Their three-year course in our School of Education called for two double periods two afternoons a week. The ground covered ccm.prised educational psychology, philosophy of education, class management, general and special methods, comparative education and a seminar. But this was not all. The most important single item in their course was the extensive reading in our library -athing which they had no notion of before joining our institution. It might have amazed an Ai .erican or Pritish educator to see these students quoting American and British educators so glibly and naturally .. It has been a source of gratification to us to find that one of these graduates was transferred a year ago by the Ministry of Education from the Primary School in which he ras teaching to the Experimental School (following the Projects Method) connected with the Government Institute of Pedagogy. Because he was studying modern ways of education the Ministry realized that he would be the right man to fill a. position in the Experimental School. Throughout all the year he consulted with us in the application of his studies to his work with the Ministry of Education. re cannot prophesy with certainty as to the number of students who will enrol in the future years in this school. It appears as though the number will remain small, for some years. The most obvious reason for this limitation is constant demand for Government recognition of our degree. The realization of this demand is almost impossible for the simple fact that the Ministry cannot employ nil the graduates of its old-fashioned normal schools not even of its Instil ute of Pedagogy. Again, the majority of those who arq(ualified to secure our degree are already teachers in Gob-ernment Schools Aho feel that their positions are already confirmed and that they need no further training for prestige