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Botany Texts: A Survey of Their Development in American Higher Education, 1643–1906

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Extract

An integral factor in the history of American higher education is the evolution of the textbook as an instructional device. This often ignored item can, as a matter of fact, offer insight into seemingly disparate threads of the historical process, such as the role and function of academic personnel, pedagogical techniques, and the curriculum. None of these implications will be examined here; rather, it is the purpose of this article to sketch the evolution of the text as a text.

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Copyright © 1964, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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