"To Give Light Where He Made All Dark": Educating the Blind about the Natural World and God in Nineteenth-Century North America

Autor/in	Pearce, Joanna L.
Titel	"To Give Light Where He Made All Dark": Educating the Blind about the Natural World and God in Nineteenth-Century North America
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 60 (2020) 3, S.295-323 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
Schlagwörter	Blindness; Educational History; Science Education; Students with Disabilities; Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Foreign Countries; Christianity; Compulsory Education; Curriculum Development; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Residential Schools; Special Schools; Educational Attitudes; Canada; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Blindheit; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Ausland; Christentum; Schulpflicht; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Heimschule; Special school; Sonderschule; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Kanada; USA
Abstract	Nineteenth-century educators worried that blind children were particularly susceptible to moral apathy, religious decay, and atheism because they could not see the beauty of nature. These educators used instruction in biology, zoology, and natural history to teach blind children about the beauty of the natural world and the breadth of God's creation. Instruction techniques included innovative but expensive apparatuses and tactile models. Despite cost challenges, educators of the blind devoted time and ingenuity to expand the science curriculum, particularly nature study programs, to help their students become successful, productive, and pious citizens equal to their sighted peers. Teaching blind students about nature ensured the blind would not become burdens on society but could be brought into the proper, civilized, religious sphere of the sighted. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01