Submitted by: Julia Ostertag, Antonia Lazarova, Samira Thomas and Susan Gerofsky
Worldwide, there is a flourishing movement for school gardens – but can these gardens become integral to the essential work and culture of schools? From mathematics to sustainability, literacy to art education, school gardens create vibrant pedagogical spaces to experiment with teaching and learning outside the four walls of industrial-era classrooms and the standard curriculum. Through our work, networks, and research in teaching and learning gardens, we are exploring how gardens teach us so that we can discover and re-imagine our world, our ways of living and thinking, and especially our ways of educating.