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Community garden: A bridging program between formal and informal learning
- Source :
- Cogent Education, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Abstract
- Community garden activities can play a significant role in bridging formal and informal learning, particularly in urban children’s science and environmental education. It promotes relational methods of learning, discussing, and practicing that will integrate food security, social interactions, community development, environmental activism, and cultural integration. Throughout the last five years of my community garden activities, I have learned that community garden-based practices adhere to particular forms of agency: embracing diversity, sharing power, and trust building as a part of everyday learning. My auto-ethnographic study provides valuable insights for environmental educators whose goals include, incorporating ethnic diversity as well as engaging children in research, ultimately leading to community action.
- Subjects :
- Community education
participatory
self-determined learning
Informal education
Science education
lcsh:Education (General)
Education
03 medical and health sciences
children
Cultural diversity
formal and informal learning
Pedagogy
environment and science education
Sociology
Community development
030505 public health
community garden
business.industry
05 social sciences
050301 education
Informal learning
Environmental education
Power structure
auto-ethnography
0305 other medical science
business
lcsh:L7-991
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cogent Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48d831b9213aff91e01c8100a884dcab