Teaching Children Science

Hands-on Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Autor: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press

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In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school s...

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Autor

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2010

strony

384

EAN

9780226449906

ISBN

0226449904

Enbook ID

04546498

Wydawca

The University of Chicago Press

Waga

658

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 30

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In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the first systematic attempt to introduce science into elementary education, and it came at a time when institutions such as zoos, botanical gardens, natural history museums, and national parks were promoting the idea that direct knowledge of nature would benefit an increasingly urban and industrial nation. The comprehensive history of this once pervasive nature study movement, "Teaching Children Science" emphasizes the scientific, pedagogical, and social incentives that encouraged primarily women teachers to explore nature in and beyond their classrooms. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt brings to vivid life the instructors and reformers who advanced nature study through on-campus schools, summer programs, textbooks, and public speaking. Within a generation, this highly successful hands-on approach migrated beyond public schools into summer camps, afterschool activities, and the scouting movement. Although the rich diversity of nature study classes eventually lost ground to increasingly standardized curricula, Kohlstedt locates its legacy in the living plants and animals in classrooms and environmental field trips that remain central parts of science education today.

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