Developing a Researchable Question: Open Inquiry in a School Garden

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Eric Berson ◽  
Isha DeCoito
Keyword(s):  
School Garden ◽  
Open Inquiry

PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: A SCHOOL GARDEN NARRATIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Andile Mji
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
School Garden ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Resultant Effect

This study reports on a programme encapsulating the ideals of positive youth development. Here, a specific narrative of an observed problem, how youths were encouraged to participate in activities and the resultant effect of interactions, is described. Participants were 118 learners, 67 (56.8%) of whom were females. The learners were in Grades 10, 11 and 12 with ages ranging between 16 years and 18 years. The programme learners participated in starting and tending gardens at school. Here, the aim was to determine how exposing learners to an empowering environment resulted in building their competencies. Specifically, this article determined what lessons learners learnt from the development programme and whether attributes of positive youth development could be extracted from learners’ utterances. Qualitative data using open-ended interviews and following a narrative perspective were collected. Findings revealed that learners changed, learned to share and understood what it meant to work with others. Also, their utterings were consistent with competencies illustrating positive youth development. The findings illustrated the importance and value of positive programmes among the youth.

scholarly journals Integration of Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks in Academic School Gardens

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peio Lopez-Iturri ◽  
Mikel Celaya-Echarri ◽  
Leyre Azpilicueta ◽  
Erik Aguirre ◽  
José Astrain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Link Quality ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
School Garden

In this work, the combination of capabilities provided by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with parameter observation in a school garden is employed in order to provide an environment for school garden integration as a complementary educational activity in primary schools. Wireless transceivers with energy harvesting capabilities are employed in order to provide autonomous system operation, combined with an ad-hoc implemented application called MySchoolGardenApp, based on a modular software architecture. The system enables direct parameter observation, data analysis and processing capabilities, which can be employed by students in a cloud based platform. Providing remote data access allows the adaptation of content to specific classroom/homework needs. The proposed monitoring WSN has been deployed in an orchard located in the schoolyard of a primary school, which has been built with EnOcean’s energy harvesting modules, providing an optimized node device as well network layout. For the assessment of the wireless link quality and the deployment of the modules, especially the central module which needs to receive directly the signals of all the sensor modules, simulation results obtained by an in-house developed 3D Ray Launching deterministic method have been used, providing coverage/capacity estimations applicable to the specific school environment case. Preliminary trials with MySchoolGardenApp have been performed, showing the feasibility of the proposed platform as an educational resource in schools, with application in specific natural science course content, development of technological skills and the extension of monitoring capabilities to new context-aware applications.

scholarly journals Outcome Framework for School Garden Program Development and Evaluation: A Delphi Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
John Diaz ◽  
Laura Warner ◽  
Susan Webb
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
School Garden ◽  
Delphi Approach ◽  
Outcome Framework
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