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The Nature-Study Idea And Related Writings.

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In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Liberty Hyde
Other Authors: Linstrom, John, Orr, David W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Series:The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library
Subjects:
Nature study.
EDUCATION & HISTORY OF EDUCATION.
ENVIRONMENT.
Nature > Étude et enseignement.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental).
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Bringing Education to Life and Life to Education: Contemporary Relevance of Bailey's Nature-Study
  • "It Is Spirit": The Genesis of The Nature-Study Idea
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index