| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Progressive Education |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of figures; Series editors' introduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Nature study; Progressive education; Environmental concern; History of nature study; History of educational reform in Australia; History of conservation and preservation in Australia; Sources; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 1: The nature study idea: history, texts and contexts ; "The great American exponents": Charles B. Scott, Clifton F. Hodge and Liberty Hyde Bailey; Complexities and conflicts; Contexts; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 2: Early reception of nature studyin Australia Ideas in transit; Australia 1901 ; Australian texts of nature study; Science for New South Wales elementary education:1890s-1903; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Nature study and educational reform ; Agitation for reform; The Commission on Primary, Secondary, Technical, and Other Branches of Education ; Educational conferences, January 1904 and April 1904, and a new syllabus ; Innovative reception and transnational exchange; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Defining and supporting nature study ; Teacher training in nature study |
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The literature of nature studyNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Nature study in practice ; Opening the classroom door; Nature study in practice: support for successful implementation; Nature study in practice: classroom, playground, gardens, excursions ; The inspectors write; Trends in nature study; Children write about nature; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Conservation, preservation and nature study; Destruction of forests, disappearing fauna and the concern of scientific societies, 1870s to early 1900s; Protecting indigenous wild life, 1908-1910 |
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Wild Life Preservation Society of AustraliaThe Gould League of Bird Lovers; Naturalists' support for preservation, 1910-1920; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: What happened to nature study? ; Nature study and agriculture: 1920s to 1930s; Nature study and natural science: 1940s to 1970s; Nature study and environmental education: 1980s to 2000s; Nature deficit?; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"A crucial component of the New Education reform movement, nature study was introduced to elementary schools throughout the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the undoubted enthusiasm with which educators regarded nature study, and the ambitious aims envisioned for teaching it, little scholarly attention has been paid to the subject and the legacy that nature study bequeathed to later curricular developments. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern explores the theories that supported nature study, as well as its definitions, aims, how it was introduced to curricula and its practice in the classroom, by focusing upon educational reform in the Australian state of New South Wales.?This book explores nature study within the context of broader educational reform movements in a period characterised by a transnational exchange of ideas. It is the only book on nature study available to date that focuses on the history of the movement outside the USA, providing a much-needed alternative perspective. Kass considers nature study as it adapted and changed throughout the twentieth century, addressing the extent to which the nature study idea represented, responded to and even influenced concern about the natural environment. Educational Reform and Environmental Concern will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of educational and environmental history. Researchers with an interest in a transnational or imperial approach to the history of education will also benefit from the wealth of comparative material that Kass presents."--Provided by publisher |
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Nature study -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
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Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
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Educational change -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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Education, Elementary -- Curricula
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Educational change
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Nature study
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New South Wales
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315625256 |
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1315625253 |
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9781317231455 |
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1317231457 |
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