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Out of school and into nature : the Anna Comstock story
\"A picture book biography about naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. She pioneered a movement to encourage schools to conduct science and nature classes for children outdoors, thereby increasing students' interest in nature\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The Comstocks of Cornell—The Definitive Autobiography
The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written
by the naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life
and that of her husband, the entomologist John Henry Comstock-both
prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell
University history.
A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key
Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. In this
twenty-first-century edition, Karen Penders St. Clair restores the
author's voice by reconstructing the entire manuscript as Anna
Comstock wrote it-and thereby preserves Comstock's memories of the
personal and professional lives of the couple as she originally
intended. The book includes an epilogue documenting the Comstocks'
last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as
serious legacy work, this book is an essential part of the history
of both Cornell University and its press.
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Nature, Not Books
Scientists played a key role in the first systematic introduction of nature study into North American public schools in the late nineteenth century. The initiatives of Wilbur Jackman and John Merle Coulter, affiliated with the young University of Chicago, and Liberty Hyde Bailey and Anna Botsford Comstock, at Cornell University, coincided with the “new education” reform movement that found object lessons and experience‐based education superior to textbook teaching. Educational psychologists and philosophers of the 1890s, including G. Stanley Hall, related curriculum methods to perceived developmental stages in children, with a focus on immediate experience. Putting these pedagogical ideas—gained in summer institutes, normal schools, and programs at Chicago and Cornell—into practice were administrators and classroom teachers in both urban and rural classrooms. By 1900, a consensus about the value of nature study among scientists, community leaders, and teachers established it as the recognized general method of studying the natural world in public schools across much of the United States.
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Two Women Naturalists and the Search for Autonomy: Anna Botsford Comstock and the Producer Ethic; Gene Stratton-Porter and the Gospel of Wealth
In review the lives of Anna Botsford Comstock and Gene Stratton-Porter, Green argues that nature work, rather than reinforcing or even bending the boundaries of separate spheres, was their passageway out of the home entirely. She also explores how differences in region, class, and culture might have led Porter and Comstock down very different paths.
Journal Article
Out of School and into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story
In this picture-book biography, the life of naturalist, artist, and education reformer [Anna Comstock] is told with easy-to-follow facts, Comstock's own words, and charming illustrations.
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