Sustainable Gardening across the Curriculum: Making it Happen

Title
Sustainable Gardening across the Curriculum: Making it Happen
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Kennelly, Julie
Elliott, Sue
Editor
Editor(s): Neil Taylor, Frances Quinn, Chris Eames
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Place of publication
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:18063
Abstract
In this chapter we describe some of the reported benefits of food growing at school, linking food growing to the purposes and content of the Australian and New Zealand Curriculums. We also provide examples of ways in which classroom teachers can use the garden as a teaching resource not only in a cross-curricular way but also in a manner that explores the Australian Curriculum conceptualisation of 'sustainability', the New Zealand curriculum principle of 'future focus', and the value of 'ecological sustainability'. Beyond the scope of this chapter is information about how to grow food plants, how to organise the development and use of the food garden as a shared school resource, and how to link the garden to kitchen activities. These latter aspects are well explained in a number of practically oriented resources that include the 'Kitchen Garden' website (State of New South Wales, 2012), the 'Campaign for School Gardening' (Royal Horticultural Society, 2008a), 'Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation' (Gamson-Danks, 2010) and 'Kids Grow: Munch and Crunch Garden' (Woodrow & Tyas Tunggal, 2011).
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Citation
Educating for Sustainability in Primary Schools: Teaching for the Future, p. 323-343
ISBN
9789463000451
9789463000444
9789463000468
Start page
323
End page
343

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