St. Bonaventure's College garden and compost program: harvesting critical and transformative learning in a place-based educational context
This thesis examines a garden and compost program at a private school in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It marks a unique educational teaching and learning dialogue between students, teachers and the wider community examined through the prisms of Sacredness, Place-Based Education, Critical P...
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ftmemorialuniv:oai:research.library.mun.ca:9577 2023-10-01T03:57:35+02:00 St. Bonaventure's College garden and compost program: harvesting critical and transformative learning in a place-based educational context Peters, Christopher T. (Christopher Thomas) 2011 application/pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/9577/ https://research.library.mun.ca/9577/1/Peters_ChristopherT.pdf en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland https://research.library.mun.ca/9577/1/Peters_ChristopherT.pdf Peters, Christopher T. (Christopher Thomas) <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Peters=3AChristopher_T=2E_=28Christopher_Thomas=29=3A=3A.html> (2011) St. Bonaventure's College garden and compost program: harvesting critical and transformative learning in a place-based educational context. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. thesis_license Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2011 ftmemorialuniv 2023-09-03T06:47:28Z This thesis examines a garden and compost program at a private school in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It marks a unique educational teaching and learning dialogue between students, teachers and the wider community examined through the prisms of Sacredness, Place-Based Education, Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Education. Specifically, this thesis examines, through a reflective narrative, the influence a compost and garden program can have on a school community's curriculum, in the classroom and outside of it. As well, it examines whether such a program can offer other schools a model of working with community partners, local experts and government agencies that they could emulate in creating their own compost and garden initiatives, in schools and communities. Thesis Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Research Repository Canada |
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This thesis examines a garden and compost program at a private school in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It marks a unique educational teaching and learning dialogue between students, teachers and the wider community examined through the prisms of Sacredness, Place-Based Education, Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Education. Specifically, this thesis examines, through a reflective narrative, the influence a compost and garden program can have on a school community's curriculum, in the classroom and outside of it. As well, it examines whether such a program can offer other schools a model of working with community partners, local experts and government agencies that they could emulate in creating their own compost and garden initiatives, in schools and communities. |
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St. Bonaventure's College garden and compost program: harvesting critical and transformative learning in a place-based educational context |
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https://research.library.mun.ca/9577/1/Peters_ChristopherT.pdf Peters, Christopher T. (Christopher Thomas) <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Peters=3AChristopher_T=2E_=28Christopher_Thomas=29=3A=3A.html> (2011) St. Bonaventure's College garden and compost program: harvesting critical and transformative learning in a place-based educational context. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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