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ERIC Number: EJ1021749
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
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Schools, Teachers and Community: Cultivating the Conditions for Engaged Student Learning
Hardy, Ian; Grootenboer, Peter
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v45 n5 p697-719 2013
This paper reveals the nature of the actions, discussions and relationships which characterised teachers' and associated school personnel's efforts to engage poor and refugee students through a community garden located in a school in a low socio-economic urban area in south-east Queensland, Australia. These actions, discussions and relationships are described as both revealing and producing particular "practice architectures" which help constitute conditions for practice--in this case, conditions for beneficial student learning. The paper draws upon interview data with teachers, other school staff and community members working in the school to reveal the interrelating actions, discussions and relationships involved in developing and using the garden for academic and non-academic purposes. By better understanding such interrelationships as practice architectures, the paper reveals how teachers and those in schooling settings learn to facilitate student learning practices that likely to assist some of the most marginalised students in schooling settings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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