Growing sustainable children : a garden teacher's guide / Ronni Sands & Willow Summer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Lindisfarne Books an imprint of SteinerBooks, 2017Description: ix, 213 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 1584209429
- 9781584209423
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection | SB453.3 .S26 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800170565 |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 203-207) and index.
Steeped in the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the authors share what they have learned about biodynamic gardening with children and teens from their years of experience in Waldorf education. (Miller Library Staff)
"Gardening with children is hands-on, outdoor education at its finest. With abundant opportunities for experiential learning, the garden is, in many ways, an ideal classroom, and an increasing number of educational initiatives are recognizing the multifaceted long- and short-term benefits that come with a gardening program for children. With its useful overviews of the history of gardening education and the evolving consciousness of children, and its detailed age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and kindergarten through high school, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone already teaching in a gardening program, for those planning on starting such a program, or for anyone working with children in a garden or other outdoor setting as a homeschooler, community organizer, or friend of the Earth. Ronni Sands has been teaching gardening to children and adolescents for more than twenty-five years, and through her rich experience she has created the curriculum presented here, one that is also based on the picture of child development used in Waldorf schools. The curriculum builds on itself through the grades, adding new skills, concepts, and abilities year after year. As she writes in the Introduction: “We are facing an environmental crisis. Crisis is good because it brings us to consciousness.... What we give time to becomes important. Having a regular time of the day when children work with and experience nature represents a path out of this crisis. To have a lasting impact, ecological principles must be woven into all aspects of education as experiences as well as concepts. Big or small, urban or rural, a space for a garden can lead children back to the natural world. If we want our children to have access to the many resources in nature, we must educate them to love and preserve these resources. This is the first step in building a heart-felt relationship to nature and growing ‘sustainable children.’”--Amazon.com.