Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban AmericaJohns Hopkins University Press, 01.02.1990 - 264 Seiten Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assess the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gentle irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlie protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteris, "Christian ornithology," and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscaps. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children. |
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... methods . In The Common Objects of the Country , already in its fourteenth edition by 1892 , the Reverend J. G. Wood ... method . Standish suggested that instructors conceal their own ignorance by paraphrasing the unassimilated personal ...
... method , contact with nature is lost , spontaneous interests vanish from the schoolroom , the study be- comes a mere ... methods not clear , teachers un- trained , textbooks inadequate . Always a new text , a new dedica- tion or a new ...
... Methods in Teaching : Being the Stockton Methods in Elementary Schools ( New York : MacMillan , 1908 ) , p . 173 . 17 ... Method in Nature Study Elementary School Teacher , x ( December , 1910 ) , p . 212. " The stints become monotonous ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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