Comment: Keep faith in natural history: why the new GCSE must teach the skills of the naturalist
Mary Colwell
Pages 22-25
Natural history is the close, patient study of the living world as it is actually met – a swift over a street, a fox track in mud, the first celandine on a bank. It is learnt through sustained observation, naming, recording and noticing change.
As the campaign for a GCSE in Natural History enters its crucial final stages, Mary Colwell offers an impassioned argument for its focus on the skills of the naturalist, lest it be diluted with wider environmentalism.
Comment: Keep faith in natural history: why the new GCSE must teach the skills of the naturalist
Natural history is the close, patient study of the living world as it is actually met – a swift over a street, a fox track in mud, the first celandine on a bank. It is learnt through sustained observation, naming, recording and noticing change.
As the campaign for a GCSE in Natural History enters its crucial final stages, Mary Colwell offers an impassioned argument for its focus on the skills of the naturalist, lest it be diluted with wider environmentalism.