It Takes a Garden Project: Dewey and Pudup on the Politics of School Gardening

Ethics and the Environment 16 (2):1-24 (2011)
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Starting with the interest and effort of the children, the whole community has become tremendously interested in starting gardens, using every bit of available ground. The district is a poor one and, besides transforming the yards, the gardens have been a real economic help to the people....we understand different episodes in the history of organized garden projects as distinct discursive formations that have been constituted through material practice and myriad discourses or tropes during each era by advocates, organizers, observers, participants, and theoreticians.What is the normative significance of school gardening for environmental activism today? While philosophical treatments generally highlight ..

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Shane Ralston
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