File includes the following:
Article from the Times Educational Supplement, 10 November 1950, entitled ‘Italian in Schools: Cultural Value Overlooked’, with replies from Roma Brookes and Guido Calogero 1 Dec 1950, and E R Vincent 8 December 1950, and related letters from Neville Rogers Oct - November 1950;
TES article re grammar school selection, 1 Dec 1950;
Invitation from the Society of Italian Studies to a meeting at the British Academy 11 March 1950 to be addressed by Miss K T Butler, Mistress of Girton 1942-49, on ‘Education in Italy during the Renaissance’;
‘The Place of Italian in British Education’ - a draft report based on discussions at a conference of the Society for Italian Studies held at Bedford College, London [1951];
‘The Place of Italian in British Education: A report issued by the Society for Italian Studies’, March 1952 [Roma Brookes was a member of the Committee of the Society];
‘Lo Studio del italiano, piacere o delusione?’: no date, no author;
’Modern Languages’: 8 page typescript concerning developments in the teaching of modern languages in schools, including comparisons with European methods of language teaching; discussion of the findings of the Annan Committee, the Nuffield Foundation and the Ministry of Education Curriculum Study Group; pilot schemes for the Nuffield Foundation Foreign Language Teaching Materials Project, evaluation of which was expected to appear in 1971; discussion of increased stress on oral work and the possibility of extending language study to include related history, geography, music, art etc. Written by ‘AHM’ [1967?].