importance of JRC subject
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Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist, coined the “Theory of Continental Drift” which explains the first ideas about Pangea, tectonic plates, and the thought that continents were moving away from or closer to each other. This theory illustrates the origin of the Himalayas. About 225 million years ago, India was a large island situated off the Australian coast, and a vast ocean (called Tethys Sea) separated India from the Asian continent. When Pangaea broke apart about 200 million years ago, India began to move northward. About 80 million years ago, India was located roughly 6,400 km south of the Asian continent, moving northward at a rate of about 9m a century. When India rammed into Asia about 40 to 50 million years ago, its northward advance slowed by about half. The collision along with the decrease in the rate of plate movement is interpreted to mark the beginning of the rapid uplift of the Himalayas.
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This article analyzes the Canadian activities of the Junior Red Cross (JRC), the youth division of the world wide Red Cross organization, for an understanding of the role of international movements, voluntary agencies and informal educational practices in curriculum change. The JRC has been one of the very few outside-the-school organizations that has had access to the classrooms in public schools in all provinces in Canada. Its emphasis on health, citizenship and international understanding closely approximated the changing curricular interests in post-World War I Canada. By using a wide variety of learning resources, integrating subject matter, focussing on self-activity as a basis for learning, and promoting mental hygiene, the Junior Red Cross Program was an example of the ‘new’ education in practice.
The success it experienced in the schools was related to the match between its aims and those of the school systems, to the overlapping of educational and Red Cross personnel, to its ability to produce usable classroom materials and to its practical program for teaching health and civics. The JRC began during the first World War and it appealed to the social and educational fervour of that period. Its promoters argued that JRC, like manual training, domestic science and school gardens, could help improve the society. It was an example of the successful adaptation of an international idea to Canadian conditions and needs.