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This open access book addresses sustainability education in garden-based learning settings with biological and cultural diversity as its central themes. It provides scientific background knowledge to understand biological diversity and its functional roles in ecosystems as well as didactic approaches to sensitize students for challenges related to biodiversity loss or preservation, respectively, and to further their environmental consciousness. It also addresses biodiversity education in a broader sense by discussing issues that include economic, political, cultural and ethical aspects.
This book supports teachers of all educational levels as well as pedagogues involved in non-formal training in developing concepts and learning environments for biodiversity education in garden-based learning settings and, therefore, it is of great benefit for school teachers and university lecturers working with their students in a school garden or close-to nature designed school areas. Likewise, teacher mentors and trainers at universities, school leaders and policymakers responsible for the laying-out of school grounds can benefit from the information compiled in this volume.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Background Information.- Chapter 2. Addressing Sustainable Development Goals in the School Garden.- Chapter 3. Biodiversity Education in School Gardens.- Chapter 4. Biodiversity of Life on Earth.- Part II. Biodiversity-related Topics for School Garden Education.- Chapter 5. Education for Global Citizenship in School Gardens.- Chapter 6. Habitat Diversity in School Gardens.- Chapter 7. Discovering Soil Diversity.- Chapter 8. Biodiversity of Soil Invertebrates.- Chapter 9. Insect Biodiversity: Drawing with Children as Approach to the World of Garden Insects.- Chapter 10. Plant and Pollinator Diversity and Protection in School Gardens.- Chapter 11. Crop and Seed Biodiversity.- Chapter 12. Regional and Seasonal Food Production as a Contribution to Biodiversity Protection.- Chapter 13. Companion Planting as Functional Diversity.- Chapter 14. The Signage says it s an Aboriginal Garden: Pedagogic Realities and Spatial Politics of Biocultural Diversity in Campus Landscapes.- Chapter 15. Vertebrate Diversity in School Gardens.- Chapter 16. Diversity of Life in Ponds.- Chapter 17. Diversity of Herbs.- Chapter 18. Digital Tools to Study Biodiversity in School Gardens.- Diversity of School Gardens: Finding a Partner School Garden.- Chapter 20. Concluding Thoughts.
About the author
Stefan Jarau is a professor of general science education and its didactics at the University College for Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria. His teaching areas cover the natural sciences, global learning, education for sustainable development and outdoor learning. His research focuses on children’s knowledge of plants and animals, their attitudes towards environmental issues, conceptual learning in primary school students and school garden education.
Dorothee Benkowitz is a professor of biology and its didactics at the University of Education in Karlsruhe, Germany. She is head of BAG Schulgarten, an association for educators and pedagogues involved in school gardening. Her research interest is the impact of school gardening on the realization of education for sustainable development. She created a university garden together with students to strengthen their self-competence in outdoor and garden-based learning.
Summary
This open access book addresses sustainability education in garden-based learning settings with biological and cultural diversity as its central themes. It provides scientific background knowledge to understand biological diversity and its functional roles in ecosystems as well as didactic approaches to sensitize students for challenges related to biodiversity loss or preservation, respectively, and to further their environmental consciousness. It also addresses biodiversity education in a broader sense by discussing issues that include economic, political, cultural and ethical aspects.
This book supports teachers of all educational levels as well as pedagogues involved in non-formal training in developing concepts and learning environments for biodiversity education in garden-based learning settings and, therefore, it is of great benefit for school teachers and university lecturers working with their students in a school garden or close-to nature designed school areas. Likewise, teacher mentors and trainers at universities, school leaders and policymakers responsible for the laying-out of school grounds can benefit from the information compiled in this volume.
