ABSTRACT
During the years following the First World War, two related shifts occurred in the direction and leadership of science education. First, the coalition that had bound together the nature-study movement unraveled. As meteoric as was the rise of nature study near the close of the nineteenth century, its decline occurred with even greater rapidity. In the words of one scholar, the movement was “all but dead” by the early 1930s. 1 Second, although women had come to dominate the leadership of the nature-study movement, the new national associations and organizations in science education that came to power after the war were almost entirely composed of men concerned to increase male enrollments in science.
