In 1912 he was given control of a laboratory of experimental education at Edinburgh, the first pedagogical laboratory in the United Kingdom and six years later succeeded Dr W . G . Smith as Combe Lecturer and head of the University's Psychology Department.
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The origins of this trend in psychology and pedagogy go back to the end of the 18th century with the separation of a branch of psychology that would form the basis of pedagogy, a pedagogic psychology or " experimental pedagogic psychology ", " experimental pedagogy ", " experimental education ".
