Article ID: CBB941683425

Nature study, Aborigines and the Australian Kindergarten: Lessons from Martha Simpson’s Australian Programme based on the Life and Customs of the Australian Black (2014)

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This article examines an experimental kindergarten programme Work in the Kindergarten: An Australian Programme based on the Life and Customs of the Australian Black developed by Martha Simpson in early twentieth-century Australia. Here Simpson adapted international Revisionist Froebelian approaches to cultural epoch theory and nature study in an Australian context. Accepting that human development recapitulates, Simpson posited that Aboriginal culture could serve as stimulus for age-appropriate and improving child-centred activities. Local contingencies, including histories of violent cross-racial encounter, complicated an attempt by kindergartener Helen Beaumont to apply the programme in the Sydney slum suburb of Leichhardt. These contingencies are documented and analysed.

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Authors & Contributors
Hamacher, Duane W.
Katie Holmes
Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida
Jarrod Hore
Beauvais, Clementine
Carter, Mark T.
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Education
Primary and secondary education
Landscape; landscapes
Nature
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Taisho period (Japan, 1912-1926)
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Modern
Places
Australia
United States
Sweden
Torres Strait
Sydney (Australia)
England
Institutions
Grampians National Park
Sydney Observatory
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