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Pyle, Robert Michael – Orion: People and Nature, 2001
Until about the 1940s, schools and universities considered observation and direct experience of one's natural surroundings to be a worthwhile educational endeavor, leading to a nature-literate citizenry. Now, lab-based biological studies and environmental education in the classroom have mostly replaced nature study, reducing the possibility of…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Programs, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
