- Title
- The force of gardening: Investigating children's learning in a food garden
- Creator
- Green, Monica; Duhn, Iris
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/168999
- Identifier
- vital:13918
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2014.45
- Identifier
- ISBN: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 (Hultman & Lenz Taguchi, 2010) 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. This paper 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. © The Author(s) 2015.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Vol. 31, no. 1 (2015), p. 60-73
- Rights
- Copyright Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Environmental education; Sustainability; Research; 05 Environmental Sciences; 13 Education; 16 Studies in Human Society
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