The Nature Study Review Volume 13

Author : American Nature Study Society
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ISBN 13 : 9781331878728
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Nature-Study Review, Vol. 13 written by American Nature Study Society and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature-Study Review, Vol. 13: January, 1917 Are we not agreed as to the fundamentals of a nature-study program? Professor Trafton raises this question in the October number of The Nature-Study Review, and I want to go on record as believing that we are agreed quite as far as we should be. The essentials of our agreement may be grouped under these three heads: I. The nature-study course should be general - as general as the child's principal interests in the things and in the processes of nature. II. It should be organized from the child's standpoint, proceeding from what he knows to what he can find out, and following the natural order of his developing aptitudes, putting wholes before parts, large things before small ones, attractive things before the less attractive. III. It should fit the environment and be adapted to season, locality and conditions. What certain critics have mistaken for disagreement among nature-study teachers is merely lack of uniformity, and is generally wholesome and desirable. Among the causes of this lack of uniformity are the following: I. The infinity of nature. Her offerings are innumerable. No. one can know or use them all, and with so much from which to choose not all teachers will choose the same things, though all may use what they choose to meet the same good ends. II. The difference of locality, in accordance with which natures offerings differ. Good nature-study teachers use things that are common and near at hand. They should not be expected to use the same things in the same manner all the way from Maine to California, any more than fishermen should be expected to do their fishing by the same methods. III. Personal knowledge of nature possessed by the teacher. Each teacher should use what she can use best; what she knows best, likes best, and succeeds with best. IV. Shifts of emphasis that grow out of increase to scientific knowledge. Such work with mosquitoes, with flies, or with bacteria as is often stressed now-a-days would not have been tolerated a generation ago, before the sanitary importance of these pests was known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.