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...Israel Scheffler has been named the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy in the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...This is the first time that any faculty of Education will have undertaken a study of this scope," Israel Scheffler, professor of Education and Philosophy, and chairman of the new committee, said yesterday...
While most recent studies of education schools have concentrated on teacher-training, the committee will give special attention to Ph.D. programs in education. Among the questions it will consider, Scheffler said, are how research in education ought to be organized--a particularly important point in view of Harvard's special research facilities--and how trainer of teachers, the so-called "clinical professors," should themselves be educated...
...Scheffler said the committee would meet regularly throughout the year and hopes to have a report ready by the end of next summer. A committee staff will do research on historical aspects of the study and will help prepare working papers for committee members...
...also welcomed Conant's emphasis on the importance of practice teaching as a test for prospective teachers. But Scheffler cautioned that practice teaching in itself was not sufficient. "Wherever possible, methods courses should be integrated with practice teaching at a critical level," he said