| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Learning Gardens, Living Soil, and Sustainability Education; 1. Introduction: Modern Imperatives for Life and Learning; 2. Learning Gardens and Life's Lessons; 3. Living Soil as Metaphorical Construct for Education; Part II: Learning Gardens Principles Linking Pedagogy and Pedology; 4. Cultivating a Sense of Place; 5. Fostering Curiosity and Wonder; 6. Discovering Rhythm and Scale; 7. Valuing Biocultural Diversity; 8. Embracing Practical Experience; 9. Nurturing Interconnectedness |
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10. Awakening the SensesPart III: Practice Comes Alive from the Ground up; 11. Teacher, Principal, and Superintendent Perspectives; 12. Moving Forward; Epilogue; Appendix: Selected Resources and Programs; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical and conceptual framework presented creatively places soil at the center of the discourse on sustainability education and learning garden design and pedagogy. Seven elements and attributes of living soil and learning gardens are presented as a guide for sustainability education: cultivating a sense of plac |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental education.
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Experiential learning.
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Outdoor education.
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School gardens.
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Environmental education
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Experiential learning
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Outdoor education
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School gardens
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Jonathan D
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| ISBN |
9780203156810 |
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0203156811 |
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