Interchange of Teachers between Great Britain and the United States

1939 ◽  
Vol 23 (253) ◽  
pp. 67-67
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Women ◽  
American Schools ◽  
English Speaking

The interchange of salaried appointments between masters and mistresses in British and American schools is arranged in Great Britain by a Committee representative of the English-Speaking Union, the British Federation of University Women, the Incorporated Association of Headmistresses, the Headmasters’ Conference, and the Association of Headmasters, working in conjunction with Committees in the United States.

scholarly journals THE DEFECTS OF A REIGNING THEORY

2021 ◽  
pp. 001
Author(s):  
Dimitar Ninov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Order ◽  
Heinrich Schenker ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Black And White ◽  
English Speaking

Contemporary theoretical musicology, and especially its anglophone section, has been heavily influenced by the ideas and analytical methods of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) who was an Austrian. Schenkerian-inspired theory, once imported in the United States from Austria, spread widely on American soil, where it was “enriched” conceptually, and was then re-exported to Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and other English speaking countries. The old American school of harmony that stemmed from the best German, French, and Russian traditions, found itself pushed to the wall by the ever growing Schenkerian school of thought which was erecting a cult of his creator. A “new order” in harmony and analysis was gradually established that regarded tonality as a business between tonic and dominant alone, the rest of the chords being of peripheral importance. This mentality shut the door to diversity and freedom in functional thinking, and opened the door to highly biased harmonic and formal analyses which erased harmonic cadences, presented tonality in black and white, breached syntactical units to create a new way of hearing music (the so-called "distance hearing" or "structural hearing”), and inevitably ended up with the same fundamental structure in melody and harmony, named “Ursatz”. This essay discusses major defects of Schenkerian theory and their negative impact on traditional harmony and analysis.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF NON-STATE HIGHER SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT IN THE USA AND GREAT BRITAIN

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Larysa Korzh-Usenko ◽  
Olena Sydorenko ◽  
Marina Chykalova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
State Higher Education

In the era of information systems and digital technologies, the urgency of developing non-state higher education is primarily related to economic progress and the challenges of a risky society. The investigation is devoted to revealing the peculiarities of the development of non-state higher education in the United States and Great Britain.On the basis of historiographical analysis, the degree of elaboration of the selected problem is determined. Using a retrospective analysis of the development of the world educational space, the historical origins of the emergence and formation of non-state higher education institutions in these English-speaking countries, related to the implementation of church, private and public initiatives. With the help of synchronous analysis of the course of innovation processes in higher education, the peculiarities of the development of the non-state higher school in the USA and Great Britain at the present stage are outlined. The method of synthesis summarizes the main advantages and disadvantages of non-state higher institutions in these English-speaking countries, as well as identifies prospects for further research.The importance of church, private and public initiative in the origin and formation of non-state schools in the United States and Great Britain is revealed, the dominance of the non-state higher education sector over the public in terms of quantity and quality of educational services in these countries.There is a growing tendency to popularize and democratize higher education in the context of the implementation of “ideas of free higher education”, primarily due to the spread of the movement for “Enlargement of the University” in the second half of the nineteenth century from Britain and the United States. The role of open universities in providing quality educational services in developed English-speaking countries at the present stage is presented. Keywords: development; non-state higher school; free university; free higher school; internationalization; globalization; massification; democratization; quality of educational services.

Secondary School Mathematics in Great Britain and the United States

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
William S. Brace
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Educational Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
American Schools

I am very conscious of the honor done to me and to the teachers of Britain by your president in asking me to address you. My qualifications for talking about American schools and educational methods are very slight indeed compared with (hose of many of you here today, so I am quite sure that it is not on those grounds that I am being asked to speak to you. Perhaps it is that someone is a little suspicious of the report that I am going to curry baek to England, and is contemplating “bumping me off” if I haven't formed satisfactory impressions of this beautiful state of yours! For my own safety, then, I will say at once that I think that Colorado is one of the most beautiful places in the world, that the people of Colorado are among the most hospitable in the world, and that the schools of Denver, which are the only Colorado schools that I know much about, are among the best in the world.

Two Visitors from England

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Standard English ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
White House ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking

IN MAY, two distinguished workers for the blind in England visited the United States for the purpose of promoting the interchange of literature for the blind. Captain Sir Ian Fraser, Head of St. Dunstan's, and Dr. Ernest Whitfield, Honorary Treasurer of the National Institute for the Blind, are both well known to workers for the blind in America through the fact that they were delegates to the World Conference in 1931. Since the World Conference two significant developments in literature for the blind have taken place—the adoption of Standard English braille and the development of the Talking Book—and facilities for the interchange of books between Great Britain and America have assumed an increased importance. After conferences in New York, the two British representatives visited Washington to confer with the authorities of the Library of Congress. Sir Ian and Lady Fraser were received at the White House, and President Roosevelt expressed himself as being greatly interested in the promotion of the interchange of Talking Books and braille literature between the two great English-speaking nations. When interviewed by a representative of the Outlook, the distinguished visitors issued the statements which appear below.

Rethinking Canada: Canadian Studies and Study Abroad

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beach ◽  
George Sherman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Admissions ◽  
American University ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Canadian Education ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Canadian Studies ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
English Speaking

Americans have been studying “abroad” in Canada on a freelance basis for generations, and for many different reasons. Certain regions of Canada, for example, provide excellent, close-to-home opportunities to study French and/or to study in a French-speaking environment. Opportunities are available coast-to-coast for “foreign studies” in an English-speaking environment. Additionally, many students are interested in visiting cities or areas from which immediate family members or relatives emigrated to the United States.  Traditionally, many more Canadians have sought higher education degrees in the United States than the reverse. However, this is about to change. Tearing a creative page out of the American university admissions handbook, Canadian universities are aggressively recruiting in the United States with the up-front argument that a Canadian education is less expensive, and a more subtle argument that it is perhaps better.

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