Between the lines | Book Read Announced for Fall – Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings

ESP Lambda Chapter will help to sponsor a book read of the book Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings once a month Oct, November and December – on Thursday’s at 11am (10/10, 11/14, and 12/5).  Sign up here!

Meetings will include – a short presentation from the book’s editor John Linstrom and dialogue/discussion among participants.

Goals:

1. to better understand what the nature-study movement was and what it stood for, and
2. to develop an understanding of how to use Bailey’s book in the work of 4-H and youth education today.

You can download the book for free  https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773952/the-nature-study-idea/ (download the PDF rather than the EPUB so that we will all have the same page numbers) or order the book with a 30% discount code, 09BCARD, here. If on campus, copies of the book are available at the Cornell Book Store.

Plans for topics and Dates:

• 10/10 11am: Pages xi-59:
  • Foreword by David W. Orr
  • Introduction by John Linstrom
  • “Bringing Education to Life and Life to Education” by Dilafruz R. Williams
  • “‘It Is Spirit’: The Genesis of The Nature-Study Idea” by John Linstrom
• 11/14 11am: Pages 60-195:
  • Note on the Text by John Linstrom
  • The Nature-Study Idea by Liberty Hyde Bailey
• 12/05 11am:Pages 197-293:
  • Major Sections Restored from the First Edition
  • Reviews of The Nature-Study Idea
  • Related Writings by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Questions can be directed to Celeste Carmichael.

Extension Book Club (Fall 2024) | Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings is brought to you by Epsilon Sigma Phi, Lambda Chapter and the CCE Admin Organizational Development Unit.