[Download] "Toward a Pedagogy for Australian Natural History: Learning to Read and Learning Content (Report)" by Australian Journal of Environmental Education * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Toward a Pedagogy for Australian Natural History: Learning to Read and Learning Content (Report)
- Author : Australian Journal of Environmental Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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In the Land of "Scraggy Growths of Prickly Shrubs" In Australia, the relationships between settler society and the land have long been strained. Historian Paul Carter (1987) has argued that the nature of nature in Australia for early European settlers was confronting and unfamiliar. Trees that shed their bark rather than their leaves and rivers that appeared to flow inland rather than to the sea were at odds with European notions of how nature ought to behave. There are numerous historical accounts depicting early Europeans struggling to develop a conceptual and physical grasp of the land and its inhabitants (see for example Arthur, 2003; Flannery, 1998; Robin, 2007). The children's story Dot and the kangaroo, written in 1899 by Ethel Pedley (1899 [1965], p. 1), provides a window into early Federation representations of the land (1):