Author: Lewis Edward HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A teacher's guide in nature study to beautify the home
Author: Lewis Edward HortonBulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Bulletin - Bureau of Education
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Home Education
Author: Charlotte MasonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625586183
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks with perfect execution, obedience, and truthfulness, to replace undesirable tendencies in children (and the adults that they grow into). She details how lessons in various school subjects can be done using her approach. She concludes with remarks about the Will, the Conscience, and the Divine Life in the Child. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by secular families and families of other religions.
A Nature Study Guide
Author: William S. FurneauxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Nursery Schools
Author: Cecil Branner HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Bibliography of Research Studies in Education
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Guide to Nature
Author: Nature Guiding
Author: William Gould VinalPublisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
ISBN: 1501740865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Nature Guiding is the science of inculcating nature enthusiasm, nature principles, and nature facts into the spirit of individuals. "Doing" nature-study means observing, wondering, and solving problems. It could include collecting, building, measuring, painting, planning, writing, touching, experimenting or any of a wide range of other activities. Most importantly, it allows children to be "original investigators." This book is intended as a resource for teachers and students engaged in nature study at summer camps and in schools. William Gould Vinal believed that the teacher of nature study should be "in sympathy with the simple life and the country way," that the nature study should emphasize observation of the interactions of plants and animals in their environment, and not be reduced to matters of taxonomy and anatomy. In Nature Guiding, he offers advice to camp counselors and school teachers on incorporating nature study into everyday activities, as well as suggestions for parents and others about using visits to state and national parks to teach nature lore.