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In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the philosophy underlying the nature-study movement in American public schools during the Progressive Era. This edition presents the authoritative text, historical context, related nature-study writings by Bailey, and new appraisals by David...

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Main Author: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954 (Author)
Other Authors: Linstrom, John, 1987- (Editor), Orr, David W., 1944- (writer of foreword.), Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. Fourth edition, revised
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Bailey, L. H. > (Liberty Hyde), > 1858-1954. > Nature-study idea.
Nature study.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by David W. Orr
  • Introduction / by John Linstrom
  • Bringing Education to Life and Life to Education : Contemporary Relevance of Bailey's Nature-Study / by Dilafruz R. Williams
  • "It Is Spirit" : The Genesis of the Nature-Study Idea / by John Linstrom
  • Note on the Text
  • The Nature-Study Idea
  • Major Sections Restored from the First Edition
  • From Part I, Chapter VII: "The Agricultural Phase of Nature-Study"
  • Part I, Chapter VIII: "Review"
  • From Part III, "Inquiries": "But do you think that this nature-study will make investigators?"
  • Reviews of The Nature-Study Idea
  • Related Writings
  • Note on the Selections
  • How a Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed (1896)
  • What Is Nature-Study? : The Bailey/Beal Debate (1897-1904)
  • Nature-Study on the Cornell Plan (1901)
  • The Common Schools and the Farm-Youth (1907)
  • When the Birds Nested (1916)
  • The Science Element in Education (1918)
  • The Humanistic Element in Education (1918).