Picturing Nature and Childhood at the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1899-1930

Public Science of the Savage Mind: Contesting Cultural Anthropology in the Cold War Classroom

“…Recent discussions about public science provide a different set of tools and perspectives from which to approach science pedagogy in the grade‐school classroom (Rader & Cain, ; Nyhart, ; Kohlstedt, ; Onion, ). Pandora and Rader (), for example, have argued that the multiple “publics” of science—including science journalists, museum curators and visitors, even Bill Nye the Science Guy—constitute part of an enlarged scientific community.…”

“…To these, I add another dimension-the reformist hopes that characterized politics of the mid-1960s, as MACOS developed, were replaced by the mid-1970s with an increasingly conservative political climate that proved hostile to some of MACOS's most fundamental tenets. 6 Recent discussions about public science provide a different set of tools and perspectives from which to approach science pedagogy in the grade-school classroom (Rader & Cain, 2008;Nyhart, 2009;Kohlstedt, 2010;Onion, 2011). Pandora and Rader (2008), for example, have argued that the multiple "publics" of science-including science journalists, museum curators and visitors, even Bill Nye the Science Guy-constitute part of an enlarged scientific community.…”