Schoolyard Gardening as Multinaturalism

Environmental education and ecological literacy is§evolving into a pedagogical field, with more and more§schools today taking actions to create landscaped§settings for natural learning than ever before. With§these developments comes a need for an integrated§book that provides both core philosophies as well as§method. This comprehensive volume Schoolyard§Gardening as Multinaturalism presents the first guide§to ways of involving students in schoolyard gardening§and designing sustainable schoolyard gardens.§Influenced by Chinese Daoism, American Naturalism,§Canadian Multiculturalism, and the architectural§discipline, a new term Multinaturalism is suggested§in response to Turner s (1995) call for a better name§of Post-Postmodernism. A conceptual model of Pillars of Student Involvement, as well as a design§template for schoolyard gardens that is applicable in§the northern hemisphere, are proposed. Schoolyard§Gardening as Multinaturalism should help shed some§light on this exciting learning environment, and is§highly recommended for educators, philosophers,§designers, parents, or anyone who is planning to use§gardens for teaching and learning.