Mentoria: Women, Children, and the Structures of Science.
- Resource Type
- Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Rauch, Alan
- Source
- Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Dec2005, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p335-351. 17p. 1 Black and White Photograph, 2 Diagrams.
- Subject
- *SCIENCE education
*TEACHING
- Language
- ISSN
- 0890-5495
The article discusses the teaching of science to young children as depicted in the book "Mentoria," by author Ann Murry in Great Britain. The book fits squarely in the tradition of conduct books for an emerging class of Anglican bluestockings. Murry places a great deal of emphasis on the utility of science as well as on its connectedness to a providential wisdom. Murry surprises the reader by offering as an example of the inelegant use of science in discourse.