Background
Fitch was the second son of Thomas Fitch, of a Colchester family, was born in Southwark, London, in 1824. His parents were poor but intellectually inclined.
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Notes on American Schools and Training Colleges (Classic Reprint)
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L'art de captiver l'attention (French Edition)
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« Lart de captiver lattention » est lun des grands classiques de la littérature anglophone sur léducation et lenseignement. Paru en 1880 dans un recueil intitulé « lart denseigner », ce texte propose tout un ensemble de clés pour penser la relation denseignant à élève, et plus généralement dadulte à enfant lorsquil est question déducation, dapprentissage ou de transmission de connaissances. Fitch est un personnage visionnaire et influant dans le milieu de lenseignement et de léducation en Grande Bretagne durant la deuxième moitié du 19ème siècle. Il est porteur dun courant de pensée qui renverse la perspective pédagogique traditionnelle selon laquelle lenfant doit sadapter aux exigences de lenseignant et se fondre dans le moule éducatif, de gré ou de force. Il part au contraire dune analyse du fonctionnement mental des enfants et notamment de leurs limitations attentionnelles, pour penser et adapter lenseignement aux capacités mentales des jeunes enfants. Ce nest donc pas lenfant qui doit plier et sadapter à lenseignement, mais bien lenseignant (ou le parent) qui doit aller le chercher et lamener, progressivement, vers lobjectif pédagogique à atteindre.
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The art of questioning
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Educational Aims and Methods: Lectures and Addresses (1900 )
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Thomas and Matthew Arnold: And Their Influence on English Education (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Thomas and Matthew Arnold: And Their Influence on English Education IN the Catalogue of the British Museum Library, there are no less than eighty-nine entries under the name of Matthew Arnold, and sixty-seven under that of his father. These entries include references to each of the several editions of their published works, whether books or pamphlets, and also to numerous tracts and essays containing criticism or comment upon those works. They do not, however, include the large number of reviews and articles which occur in the periodicals and dictionaries of the time, and which throw light on the character and achievements of the Arnolds. Of the abundant literature with which their names have thus come to be associated, much is occupied with ephemeral controversy, and with incidents little likely to interest the coming generation of readers or indeed to be wholly intelligible to them. It has seemed to me, therefore, that as both men have exerted a large share of in?uence in forming the opinion of the country on educational questions, and as their lives possess peculiar interest for those who are teachers by profession, there was room for a small volume which, without professing to furnish a new biography, or a new theory respecting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Joshua Girling Fitch
Edit ProfileEducation
He educated himself by assiduous reading and attending classes at University College; and in 1850 he took his B. A. degree at London University, proceeding M. A. two years later.
Career
At an early age Fitch started work as an assistant master in the British and Foreign School Society's elementary school in the Borough Road, founded by Thomas Lancaster. Later he was made headmaster of another school at Kingsland. In 1852 he was appointed by the British and Foreign School Society to a tutorship at their Training College in the Borough Road, soon becoming vice-principal and in 1856 principal. He had previously done some occasional teaching there, and he was thoroughly imbued with the Lancasterian system. In 1863 he was appointed a government inspector of schools for the York district, from which, after intervals in which he was detached for work as an assistant commissioner (1865- 1867) on the Schools Inquiry Commission, as special commissioner (1869), and as an assistant commissioner under the Endowed Schools Act (1870 - 1877), he was transferred in 1877 to East Lambeth. In 1883 he was made a chief inspector, to superintend the eastern counties, and in 1885 chief inspector of training colleges, a post he held till he retired in 1894. He was a strong advocate and supporter of the movement for the higher education of women, and he was constantly looked to for counsel and direction on every sort of educational subject; After he retired from official life his services were in active request in inquiries and on boards and committees. He died on the 14th of July 1903 in London. , whom, as Miss Emma Wilks, he had married in 1856.
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In the course of an extraordinarily active career, he acquired a unique acquaintance with all branches of education, and became a recognized authority on the subject, his official reports, lectures and books having a great influence on the development of education in England. In 1896 he was knighted. Besides receiving such academic distinctions as the LL. D. degree from St Andrews University, he was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1889. He was a constant contributor to the leading reviews; he published an important series of Lectures on Teaching (1881), Educational Aims and Methods, Notes on American Schools and Colleges, and an authoritative criticism of Thomas and Matthew Arnold, and their Influence on English Education (see also the article on Arnold, Matthew) in 1901; and he wrote the article on Education in the supplementary volumes (10th edition) of this encyclopaedia (1902).
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Thomas and Matthew Arnold: And Their Influence on English Education (Classic Reprint)
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Fitch's Lectures to Sunday School Teachers ..
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L'art de captiver l'attention (French Edition)
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Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge
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Notes on American Schools and Training Colleges (Classic Reprint)
(Notes on American Schools and Training Colleges Classic R...)
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Educational Aims and Methods: Lectures and Addresses (1900 )
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- The art of questioning
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Thomas and Matthew Arnold: And Their Influence on English Education (Classic Reprint)
Personality
His wide knowledge, safe judgment and amiable character made his co-operation of exceptional value.
Connections
In 1856 he married Emma, daughter of Joseph Barber Wilks, of the East India Company.
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