Educational Television—Report on a visit to America

Abstract

On Saturday 2nd July 1966, I left Glasgow by air and reached Boston that evening. Emmanuel College was my place of residence while I followed a course in Educational Research methods which was given by Professor Donald Spearitt and others at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Harvard. I worked mainly in Longfellow Hall and the newly erected Larsen Hall on the Appian Way, Cambridge. Privileged access to libraries, including the famous Widener Library, was granted to me. That semester in Harvard was particularly valuable in providing standards with which to evaulate and appreciate the work I was later to see in many studios and classrooms throughout the USA. I also had the advantage of discussing problems with first-rate educationists who suggested the most useful places to visit and introduced me to key people in the world of Instructional Television.