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DURING the last few decades much attention has been given to the methods of teaching science, especially chemistry. Definite courses of instruction have been framed for educational purposes, and they have tended to become stereotyped in conformity with the requirements of examining bodies. The subject matter of the science, however, has not received a similar careful scrutiny, and, whilst in the outside world epoch-making advances have been made, they have passed unheeded in the classroom. There is thus a danger that a distinction may soon be drawn between chemistry and ‘schoolmaster's chemistry’. It is with this in mind, evidently, that Mr. Adlam has written his volume for elementary students, in which recent industrial methods receive preference over the obsolescent, uneconomic preparations of the average elementary text-book.
A School Certificate Chemistry.
By G. H. J. Adlam. Pp. x + 334. (London: John Murray, 1929.) 4s. 6d. net.
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A School Certificate Chemistry . Nature 124, 980 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124980a0
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