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Educational reform and environmental concern : a history of school nature study in Australia / Dorothy Kass.

Educational reform and environmental concern : a history of school nature study in Australia / Dorothy Kass.
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ISBN 9781138650510
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Item Number 60002200416
Location 372.35 KAS
Author Kass, Dorothy, (author).
Title Educational reform and environmental concern : a history of school nature study in Australia / Dorothy Kass.
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Collation xvi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Series Progressive education : policy, politics and practice
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Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note 1.The nature study idea: history, texts and contexts -- 2.Early reception of nature study in Australia -- 3.Nature study and educational reform -- 4.Defining and supporting nature study -- 5.Nature study in practice: New South Wales, 1904--1920 -- 6.Conservation, preservation and nature study -- 7.What happened to nature study?.
Summary Note "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 concerns' 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." - Back cover.
"Would a subject included in school curricula be able to influence the future of the natural environment? This is a question that remains strikingly important ... as climate change becomes a critical, yet contested concern. Enough space for meaningful environmental education at all levels of schooling in the twenty-first century would appear crucial." -- p. 2-3.
Subject Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
Nature study -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
Educational change -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
Environmental education
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