I am in London Ontario. We got information from the United Nations offices in Ottawa and New York for a teen conference we were running on Ecology and the Environment in 1990. Two concrete concepts that the UN was really big on at that time were Community Gardens and "Pop Ed" They were using these two learning platforms to teach everything from math and reading to social studies and politics. "Pop ed" means popular education and its the idea that you can learn with what you have almost anything in the base knowledge category. Its an investigative and collaborative open source style of education. Anyway they sent me books which I have since passed on to others, but they might have copies left. You never know. The Waldorf school pedagogical approach includes the idea of gardens being used to teach math, art, science, singing and physical education and also using those subjects to teach gardening.
>________________________________ > From: Michele Israel <[email protected]> >To: B.G. Merkle <[email protected]>; [email protected]; >[email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:50:02 PM >Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Request for information & resources re food + >literacy projects > >> Are you both looking for info on youth or adults? Michele >> >> >> >> >> Hi Paul, >> That's exactly what I'm looking for, actually. We're looking into the >> feasibility of launching a project like this. If anyone has done it >> before, I'd like to hear about it. I am working on presenting a solid case >> to my employer, so that she could make a convincing presentation to the >> funder. >> >> We won't have any findings to share unless we get the funding to pilot the >> idea. >> >> Bethann >> >> P.S. We're located in Quebec, so there's definitely elements of cultural >> and bilingual literacy at work, too. >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > Beth, >>> > >>> > Can you share your findings? >>> > >>> > Paul Hughes >>> > @GrowCalgary >>> > @paulyhughes >>> > [email protected] >>> > c403.383.3420 >>> > http://paulin8.blogspot.ca/ >>> > >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/**paul-hughes<http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/paul- >>> hughes> >>> > >>> > >>> > On 3/19/2013 10:34 AM, B.G. Merkle wrote: >>> > >>>> >> Hello everyone, >>>> >> I'm writing to request any tips, links, case studies, or materials you >>>> >> might know of that could be used to make the case for food as a way of >>>> >> teaching about essential literacy skills (reading, writing, math, >>>> >> health, >>>> >> computers, etc.). For example, reading, math, nutrition, and critical >>>> >> thinking are all involved with cooking a healthy meal. 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