Code: 04546498

Teaching Children Science

Name: Teaching Children Science
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04546498
Price: 73.89 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 2010
More about this

73.89 €

Availability:

50/50

We think title might be available. Upon your order we will do our best to get it within 6 weeks.
We search the world

Availability alert

Add to wishlist

Modern Algebra - An Introduction 6e
299.34 €
Buy
International Trade and the New Economic Order
142.70 €
Buy
Bug Club NF Blue (KS2) A/4B How Do They Make ... Comics
12.70 €
Buy
Social Construction of Europe
125.02 € -9 %
Buy
Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators
104.48 €
Buy
Exploring European Social Policy
33.53 €
Buy
Heterogeneous Objects
51.12 €
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

Availability alert

We will watch availability for you

Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.

You get 184 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.