Learning Gardens for All
Diversity and Inclusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6172267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marna Hauk, Dilafruz R Williams, Dilafruz Williams, Judy Bluehorse Skelton, Sybil S Kelley (0000-0002-1320-8762), Sybil Kelley, Susan Gerofsky (0000-0002-1234-405X), Claire Lagerwey |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 41-63 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic Social and Cultural Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2325-114X • E-ISSN: 2325-1115 |
| Publisher | Common Ground Research Networks (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.18848/2325-1115/cgp/v13i04/41-63 |
| OpenAlex | W2790616449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
By their nature, gardens embody diversity. This article explores the cultural significance and value of school gardens for diverse communities in restoring and reclaiming their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and resilience through stories, myths, and practical examples. It highlights details for experiential dimensions of garden based learning education. Grounded in the research-based, seven-fold benefits of garden-based sustainability education, this article is the international collaborative effort of garden researcher-practitioners from indigenous, multicultural, urban, biocultural, and STEM perspectives from over a half dozen different diversity-intensive urban learning gardens in the Pacific Northwest. It also describes dynamic experiential teaching approaches for sharing stories and engaging with hands-on approaches to garden-based learning at multiple scales and modes. Vivacious, research-based garden learning from regional learning gardens activates urban learning gardens as sites of diversity-enhancing sustainability education, nurturing the resilience and collaborative creativity required for biocultural flourishing
Diversity (politics · Experiential learning · Flourishing · Inclusion (mineral · Indigenous · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropology · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Ecology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |