Brenda Lansdown

Brenda Lansdown
A smiling white woman with dark hair, wearing glasses
Lansdown, from the 1959 yearbook of Brooklyn College
Born(1904-01-25)January 25, 1904
London, England, U.K.
DiedJuly 1, 1990(1990-07-01) (aged 86)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other nameLan Benda
OccupationsEducator, college professor

Brenda Muriel Lansdown (January 25, 1904 – July 1, 1990) was an English-born American math and science educator and a professor of education at Brooklyn College. Her method for teaching science became popular in China after she lectured at Beijing Normal University in the 1980s.

Early life and education

Lansdown was born in London, the daughter of George Arthur Lansdown and Muriel Janet Lansdown. Her father was an architect who served on the Kensington Borough Council.[1] She graduated from Lausanne University,[2] and moved to the United States in 1931.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree from Hunter College.[4]

Career

Lansdown taught at New York City private schools in the 1940s, including the Dalton School and the City and Country School. She was known for her hands-on science lessons, which she called the investigation-colloquium method. She taught education courses at Brooklyn College,[5] Hunter College, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[2]

Lansdown was interested in both educational technology and preparing students for a more technologically complex future. In 1958, she spoke about science education in the "Sputnik Age".[4] In 1963, she coordinated a project to develop best practices for effective and engaging videotaped instruction.[6] She traveled to China in 1977 to study science education.[7] In 1984, with UNICEF funding, she returned to China to give workshops on her science teaching method, and spoke at Beijing Normal University.[2][8]

Publications

Lansdown's academic research was published in scholarly journals including The School Review,[9] Science Education,[10] Childhood Education,[11] The Reading Teacher,[12] The Arithmetic Teacher,[13][14][15] Educational Horizons,[16] Science and Children,[17] and Teachers College Record.[18]

  • Workbook on scientific thinking (1950)[19]
  • "Tutoring Experience for Students in Methods Courses" (1952)[9]
  • "Scientific thinking can be taught to function in the everyday life of students" (1953)[10]
  • "There's More to Mathematics than the Reckoning" (1954)[11]
  • "The Problem of Identification in Learning to Read" (1954)[12]
  • "From Cake to Cancellation" (1957)[13]
  • Arithmetic for Beginners (1960)[20], published in the U.K. as My Picture Book of Numbers (1962)[21][22]
  • "Creating mathematicians: Poeta fit non nascitur" (1961)[14]
  • "Orbiting a science program" (1962)[23]
  • Galumph (1963, illustrated by Ernest Crichlow)[24]
  • "Exploring rate graphs with gifted ten-year-olds" (1964)[15]
  • "Free versus guided experimentation" (1965, with Thomas S. Dietz)[25]
  • "One way to change the urban schools" (1967)[16]
  • "Insect Interest Transforms a Neighborhood" (1968, with Lisa Pershouse)[17]
  • "Hono(u)R the Corn" (1970)[18]
  • Teaching Elementary Science Through Investigation and Colloquium (1971)[26]
  • "Sharing Science in the Classroom: An Alternative Teaching Method" (1979)[7]

Personal life

Lansdown died in 1990, at the age of 86, in Boston.[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Death of Ald. G. A. Lansdown; Fine Record of Public Work". The Kensington News and West London Times. 1946-12-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-04-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c d Fowler, Glenn (1990-07-04). "Brenda Lansdown, Who Devised a Way To Teach, Dies at 86". The New York Times. p. 13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  3. ^ Lansdown's middle name, birthdate, and emigration date are from her petition for naturalization, dated April 25, 1935, via Ancestry.
  4. ^ a b "Educator Talks in Spring Valley on Sputnik Age". The Journal News. 1958-01-16. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Community School Conference Set". Brooklyn Eagle. 1952-03-14. p. 26. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "'Idiot Box' is Put to Good Use by BC Education Department". Kings Courier. 1963-06-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (November–December 1979). "Sharing Science in the Classroom: An Alternative Teaching Method". Science for the People. 11 (6): 22–25.
  8. ^ Eddy, David. "A US educator whose work is venerated in China". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  9. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (May 1952). "Tutoring Experience for Students in Methods Courses". The School Review. 60 (5): 268–274. doi:10.1086/441914. ISSN 0036-6773.
  10. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (December 1953). "Scientific thinking can be taught to function in the everyday life of students". Science Education. 37 (5): 315–318. Bibcode:1953SciEd..37..315L. doi:10.1002/sce.3730370505. ISSN 0036-8326.
  11. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (February 1954). "There's More to Mathematics than the Reckoning". Childhood Education. 30 (6): 272–279. doi:10.1080/00094056.1954.10726468. ISSN 0009-4056.
  12. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (1954). "The Problem of Identification in Learning to Read". The Reading Teacher. 8 (2): 113–115. ISSN 0034-0561. JSTOR 20196830.
  13. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda C. (April 1957). "From Cake to Cancellation". The Arithmetic Teacher. 4 (3): 136–137. doi:10.5951/AT.4.3.0136. ISSN 0004-136X.
  14. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (March 1961). "Creating mathematicians: Poeta fit non nascitur". The Arithmetic Teacher. 8 (3): 98–101. doi:10.5951/AT.8.3.0098. ISSN 0004-136X.
  15. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda. "Exploring rate graphs with gifted ten-year-olds." The Arithmetic Teacher 11, no. 3 (1964): 146-165.
  16. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (1967). "one way to change the urban schools". Educational Horizons. 46 (2): 76–83. ISSN 0013-175X. JSTOR 42923576.
  17. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda, and Lisa Pershouse. "Insect Interest Transforms a Neighborhood." Science and Children (1968): 12-13.
  18. ^ a b Lansdown, Brenda (January 1970). "Hono(u)R the Corn". Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 71 (4): 1–3. doi:10.1177/016146817007100408. ISSN 0161-4681.
  19. ^ "Lansdown, Brenda. Workbook on scientific thinking. New York: The Dalton Book Shop, 1950 (review)". Science Education. 37 (2): 142. March 1953. doi:10.1002/sce.3730370220. ISSN 0036-8326.
  20. ^ "Brief Reviews of Recent Books". The Herald-Sun. 1960-08-14. p. 47. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Children's Bookshelf: Between 'Pooh' and 'Mountolive'". Southern Daily Echo. 1962-11-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Arithmetic can be fun". Winsford Chronicle. 1962-10-13. p. 14. Retrieved 2026-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Lansdown, Brenda (March 1962). "Orbiting a science program". Science Education. 46 (2): 180–184. Bibcode:1962SciEd..46..180L. doi:10.1002/sce.3730460229. ISSN 0036-8326.
  24. ^ Lansdown, Brenda; Crichlow, Ernest T. (1963). Galumph. Internet Archive. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
  25. ^ Lansdown, Brenda; Dietz, Thomas S. (April 1965). "Free versus guided experimentation". Science Education. 49 (3): 210–213. Bibcode:1965SciEd..49..210L. doi:10.1002/sce.3730490305. ISSN 0036-8326.
  26. ^ Lansdown, Brenda (1971). Teaching elementary science through investigation and colloquium. Internet Archive. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-588013-9.

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