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The Alphabets of Nature: Children, Books and Natural History in Scotland, circa 1750--1800 (2010)

Eddy, Matthew D. (Author)

Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 25
Pages: 1--22

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Science education and teaching Textbooks Education Natural history Children 18th century Scotland

This essay examines the kinds of textbooks that were used to teach natural knowledge to children in eighteenth-century Scotland. Following Roger Chartier's belief that the forms and uses of print can be employed to categorise the content of texts, I focus on three groups of books that were used in specific settings: (1) homes, academies and parish schools; (2) social and professional settings where adolescents worked; (3) and high schools. I do not take these groupings to be definitive, but more as a preliminary categorisation. Along the way I treat various historiographic points relevant to the canon of Scottish pedagogy and I comment on some issues relevant to the instruction of girls. I conclude by calling for more studies that address how and where children's books were used during the Enlightenment

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