Dorothy Kass

Educational Reform and Environmental Concern

A History of School Nature Study in Australia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Educational Reform and Environmental Concern 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367202194
• ISBN-10: 0367202190
• Artikelnr.: 56922835

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Kass has a PhD in Modern History from Macquarie University. She is a member of the Australian History Association (AHA), Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES), Royal Australian Historical Society and the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture-Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ). She has presented papers on the history of education at various national and international conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Series editors' introduction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
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?
Conclusion