Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education: Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life

By: Dilafruz Williams and Jonathan Brown

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Synopsis: 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 place; fostering curiosity and wonder; discovering rhythm and scale; valuing biocultural diversity; embracing practical experience ; nurturing interconnectedness. The living soil of learning gardens forms the basis of a new metaphoric language serving to contest dominant mechanistic metaphors presently influencing educational discourse. Student voices and examples from urban schools provide practical understanding of how bringing life to schools can indeed bring schools to life.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781136583506
Related ISBNs:: 9780203156810, 9780415899826, 9780415899826, 9780415899819, 9780415899819
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/29/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Education
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.