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| Transdisciplinary learning in a kitchen garden : connecting to nature and constructing a path to ecoliteracy?
| Wallace, Heather D. | 2019 |
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Title: Transdisciplinary learning in a kitchen garden : connecting to nature and constructing a path to ecoliteracy?
Author(s): Wallace, Heather D. |
Journal Details: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education v.28 n.4 p.309-323
Published: November 2019
ISSN: 1038-2046
Abstract: This article reports on a qualitative investigation of Australian, grade 4 primary (elementary) school children's reflections on their learning in a year-long kitchen garden program. Focus group interviews, journal collection, and observations were conducted with three cohorts of students (age 9–11 years) to give insight into whether kitchen garden programs can assist with connecting children to nature and developing ecoliteracy. Findings suggested that frequent visits by the children to the garden assisted with building familiarity and ownership of the garden. This intimacy with the garden created the basis for perceptive observations on changes to the plants and animals in the garden, increased empathy with living creatures, and built interest in the natural environment. Some children also discovered complex interconnections and noted their actions could affect the health of the environment. Facilitated, reflective discussion enabled the primary aged students to explicate their increased engagement with and concern for nature. It is contended that, over time, immersion in transdisciplinary kitchen garden learning experiences can develop students' ecoliteracy. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2019.1646013
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| Making literacies real in the garden.
| Elvery, Marion | 2017 |
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Title: Making literacies real in the garden.
Author(s): Elvery, Marion |
Journal Details: Literacy Learning : the Middle Years v.25 n.3 p.i-vii
Published: October 2017
ISSN: 1320-5692
Abstract: This section offers ideas about using a school garden to offer an authentic context for the learning of literacies. It presents two examples from the author's school, where she made literacies 'real' in the garden. The first example describes how science, health and art were used in the food garden. The second example shows how history was used in the native school garden. Gardens create the perfect conditions for engaging all students in the full scope of making meaning: orally, becasue they are social places that encourage dialogue and negotiation; audio, as they follow directions and listen to the sounds of nature; written, as they read and write and share knowledge; and visual, spatial and emotional. There is nothing more memorable for students than memories of being out of the classroom in the garden. [Author extract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=218053
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| Expanding horizons : Home economics from garden to table.
| Barry, Ange | 2016 |
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Title: Expanding horizons : Home economics from garden to table.
Author(s): Barry, Ange |
Journal Details: Journal of the Home Economics Institute of Australia v.23 n.3 p.10-14
Published: 2016
ISSN: 1322-9974
Abstract: The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation works with schools and learning centres to provide structured, pleasurable food education to students. The Kitchen Garden Program model is successful because it engages students in all stages of food production and gives them the skills to grow, harvest, prepare and share their own fresh, seasonal and delicious food. It also works because educators are engaged in the program and use it to achieve multiple and various health, learning and community engagement outcomes. We invite home economics practitioners to share in some of the kitchen garden experiences and break down the borders of a kitchen-only experience - even if it means just a few pots of fresh herbs on the windowsill - and share the knowledge and understanding that see kitchen garden kids take their learning home. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=214604
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| The force of gardening : investigating children's learning in a food garden.
| Green, Monica
Duhn, Iris | 2015 |
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Title: The force of gardening : investigating children's learning in a food garden.
Author(s): Green, Monica | Duhn, Iris |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Environmental Education v.31 n.1 p.60-73
Published: July 2015
ISSN: 0814-0626
Abstract: School gardens are becoming increasingly recognised as important sites for learning and for bringing children into relationship with food. Despite the well-known educational and health benefits of gardening, children's interactions with the non-human entities and forces within garden surroundings are less understood and examined in the wider garden literature. Using a relational materialist approach that considers the material artefacts that constitute a learning environment, this article examines children's interactions with the animate and inanimate life forces through three specific garden photographs. The photos belong to data derived from a study that examined food, ecology and design pedagogies in three Australian primary schools, two in Victoria and one in Tasmania. The article argues that children's interactions with the non-human materialities of a garden are a vital dimension of gardening practice. The agential powers of gardens have great capacity to mobilise and inform children's inhabitation of food gardens. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2014.45
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| Remote school gardens : exploring a cost-effective and novel way to engage Australian Indigenous students in nutrition and health.
| Hume, Andrew
Wetten, Alexander
Feeney, Camilla
Taylor, Sally
O'Dea, Kerin
Brimblecombe, Julie | 2014 |
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Title: Remote school gardens : exploring a cost-effective and novel way to engage Australian Indigenous students in nutrition and health.
Author(s): Hume, Andrew | Wetten, Alexander | Feeney, Camilla | Taylor, Sally | O'Dea, Kerin | Brimblecombe, Julie |
Journal Details: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health v.38 n.3 p.235-240
Published: June 2014
ISSN: 1326-0200
Abstract: This pilot study aimed to determine the feasibility of a novel, low-cost program to get remote schools started in gardening and nutrition activities, for a lower cost than existing models, and without on-the-ground horticultural support. A multi-site, mixed methods case study was undertaken, in which four remote primary schools in the Northern Territory, Australia were shipped gardening materials and a nutrition and cooking resource, and provided with horticultural support by phone and email. A support register and teacher surveys were used for four months of evaluation. The study demonstrated that the program is feasible, and may be associated with an increase from baseline in student's time spent cooking, gardening and on related classroom activities. The program was delivered economically without the need for on-the-ground staff, in a manner that was acceptable to teachers. This model may have application in remote schools throughout Australia, where there is a need to alter health impacting behaviours in high-risk populations. Lengthier program evaluation times and further resource development may be worth investigating in the future. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12236
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| Curriculum literacies and the school garden.
| Pascoe, Joanne
Watt-Smith, Claire | 2013 |
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Title: Curriculum literacies and the school garden.
Author(s): Pascoe, Joanne | Watt-Smith, Claire |
Journal Details: Literacy Learning : the Middle Years v.21 n.1 p.34-47
Published: February 2013
ISSN: 1320-5692
Abstract: This article reports an investigation of the potential of school gardens as an effective middle years learning environment in which to teach curriculum literacies in a cross disciplinary manner. Drawing on the school garden literature and on interview data from key stakeholders at two Brisbane State primary schools, the article provides perspectives on school garden curriculum literacy learning in the following curriculum areas: English, Mathematics or Numeracy, Science, Environmental Education, ICT and Art. The documented enthusiasm of the students when involved in school garden activities goes some way towards making the school garden an effective literacy learning environment. The study revealed that the students who were reported by teachers as benefitting most from curriculum literacy learning in the school garden were those with learning difficulties and behavioural issues. The literature often associates these students with lower literacy levels. The stakeholder comments point to an overall improvement in some skills, particularly writing and attitude to learning through meaningful integration of curriculum literacies to support classroom learning through garden lessons. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=196639
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| Kitchen gardens : contexts for developing proportional reasoning.
| Hilton, Annette
Hilton, Geoff
Dole, Shelley
Goos, Merrilyn
O'Brien, Mia | 2013 |
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Title: Kitchen gardens : contexts for developing proportional reasoning.
Author(s): Hilton, Annette | Hilton, Geoff | Dole, Shelley | Goos, Merrilyn | O'Brien, Mia |
Journal Details: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom v.18 n.2 p.21-26
Published: 2013
ISSN: 1326-0286
Abstract: It is great to see how the sharing of ideas sparks new ideas. In 2011 Lyon and Bragg wrote an APMC article on the mathematics of kitchen gardens. In this article the authors show how the kitchen garden may be used as a starting point for proportional reasoning. The authors highlight different types of proportion problems and how the authentic context of a kitchen garden may be used to spark interest in reasoning. [Publisher abstract]
URL (open access) : http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1093178.pdf
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=210927
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| Environmental education in a culturally diverse school.
| Tangen, D.
Fielding-Barnsley, R. | 2007 |
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Title: Environmental education in a culturally diverse school.
Author(s): Tangen, D. | Fielding-Barnsley, R. |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Environmental Education v.23 p.23-30
Published: 2007
ISSN: 0814-0626
Abstract: School gardens provide a unique learning environment for English as Second Language (ESL) students: students are able to engage in experiential outdoor learning that will enhance in-class lessons. This study evaluated the effects of school gardening on ESL students' learning about good nutrition. Data collected indicated that there were positive gains in student learning and feelings of belonging to the school community. Indications from the study suggest that teacher attitudes play a big part in ESL student engagement in the learning process for environmental education. Garden-enhanced lessons about nutrition provided experiential learning for ESL students that effectively supported in-class learning. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=168560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600000689
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| The kitchen garden at Collingwood College.
| Conroy, K. | 2004 |
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Title: The kitchen garden at Collingwood College.
Author(s): Conroy, K. |
Journal Details: Interaction v.32 n.2 p.28-29
Published: June 2004
ISSN: 0310-7949
Abstract: The Kitchen Garden at Collingwood College is a hands-on primary school program that involves students in gardening, cooking, preparing and sharing fresh food. Collingwood College is a prep to year 12 school in inner city Melbourne with students representing 36 different nationalities. Many live in public housing high-rise apartments with little or no access to soil.
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=136257
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