Abstract
This article aims at exploring the historical development of the FSC in terms of its undertakings and organisation management between 1956 and 1968. It will also consider what the FSC carried out to encourage fieldwork and to meet social demand during the era. In conclusion, as far as characteristic issues of the FSC during 1956-1968 are considered, the most significant strategy in this period may seem to meet demand for formal education and success in raising finance. In fact, the council attempted to exploit staff resources and improve the educational environment for formal education, especially for biology and geography. Besides, operations of the FSC were acknowledged by institutions in the same business in other regions as well as the government, so that the field centres of the FSC became to be recognised as efficient educational facilities for fieldwork among secondary schools and colleges in England and Wales. The idea of field centres of the FSC came to be accepted willingly among schools and other educational organisations. The characteristics of the FSC of this period are that it made successfully provided educational activities which supported the school curriculum, developed staff skills and separate and expand its undertakings on its own initiative.
