Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Bringing Education to Life and Life to Education: Contemporary Relevance of Bailey’s Nature-Study 10
7. “It Is Spirit”: The Genesis of The Nature-Study Idea 19
8. Note on the Text 60
9. The Nature-Study Idea 63
10. Major Sections Restored from the First Edition
11. From Part I, Chapter VII: The Agricultural Phase of Nature-Study 199
12. Part I, Chapter VIII: Review 213
13. From Part III: Inquiries 215
14. Reviews of The Nature-Study Idea 217
15. Related Writings
16. Note on the Selections 229
17. How a Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed. (1896) 236
18. What Is Nature-Study? The Bailey-Beal Debate (1897–1904) 243
19. Nature-Study on the Cornell Plan (1901) 261
20. The Common Schools and the Farm-Youth (1907) 265
21. When the Birds Nested (1916) 279
22. The Science Element in Education (1918) 282
23. The Humanistic Element in Education (1918) 288
24. Acknowledgments 295
25. Notes 299
26. Works Cited 335
27. Index 349