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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: EDU 292 Week 5 response, Early Interdisciplinarity? First Curriculum of the Farm School references {Scheuring, #130}, technical but lecture based, Country life movement championed by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Early Interdisciplinarity? First Curriculum of the Farm School main ideas Country life movement, timeline 1907 school opens, timeline 1909 Farm School begins, Early Interdisciplinarity? First Curriculum of the Farm School main ideas timeline, Early Interdisciplinarity? First Curriculum of the Farm School main ideas ag curriclum, Country life movement championed by Teddy Rooselvelt, timeline 1906 Davis site purchased by UC, Country life movement timeframe 1900-1920, ag curriclum short courses for farmers, ag curriclum Farm School technical high school, Country life movement promoted Jeffersonian ideal, for farmers was technical, timeline 1908 short course for farmers begin, timeline 1900 - ? UC Berkeley College of Ag., Early Interdisciplinarity? First Curriculum of the Farm School reflections School = Farm, School = Farm real curriculum? I went to a technical high school for a year while living in American Samoa. I remeber having English and Math - as did the Farm School students - but all of the other subjects were technical (electronics, carpentry, technical drawing, welding etc. My dad was excited for me to attend such a school because he hoped I would gain some real skills. In his assessment, I was perfectly competant in the school subjects that had little application to daily survival, but needed some coaching on the practical things in life. I imagine that for most of the students that attended the Farm School this was training for what they really would spend the rest of their lives doing. "The curriculum focussed primarily on practical subjects like animal husbandry, farm mechanics, soil fertility, and farm accounting, but also featured classes in English, mathematics, botany, chemistry, history, and civics. Instruction was not intended to prepare students for college" (p. 28, Abundant Harvest). I completely agree that the best place to teach farming is on an actual farm, but I wonder why they bothered with the history and civics lessons. Were there some state high school requirements they had to meet? Or, were they really just concerned that their students get a well-rounded education? On that note, I wonder if their social science classes were agriculture based. Since they all probably took the same classes together at the same time it would have been possible to make it quite interdisciplinary., ag curriclum UC Berkeley School (or College?) of Ag