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- Title
THE VALUE OF NATURE LEADERSHIP IN CAMP AS TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.
- Authors
Vinal, William Gould
- Abstract
The article discusses features and characteristics of a teacher training camp for elementary science classes. The success of such camp depends on how much exposure to nature was provided to the camp trainees and students. The article suggests that teachers and children should be exposed to real and living things, not artificial items, so that they can get most of the camp facilities. For example, to present a goldfish in a jar or a plant in a pot or a leaf mounted on a card in camp training would be tantamount to insult to the campers' intelligence. This is because everything there in the jungle is available live and in natural conditions. The camp breaks the school traditions in the sense that no uniform is imposed there and the environment is very much natural with clean air, free from smoke and pollution. Various schools in the United States have made camping a regular feature of their curriculum.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SCIENCE camps; SCIENCE education (Elementary); SCIENCE teacher training; TEACHING methods; NATURE study; SCIENCE students; TEACHER training; ELEMENTARY education
- Publication
Science Education, 1935, Vol 19, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730190107