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Historical learning in educational garden lessons

Under the title "Historical learning in educational garden lessons", the University of Erfurt is hosting the annual conference of the "Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Schulgarten" (Federal Working Group for Educational Gardens) on its campus on 26/27 September. The main aim of the event is to provide further training for teachers in Thuringia and to network those involved nationwide. Registration is still possible until 31 August.

educational garden at the University of Erfurt

Participants can look forward to workshops, lectures and excursions and, of course, plenty of opportunities for dialogue. As part of the event, the Sonja Bernadotte Prize, which is endowed with 1500 euros and recognises special merits and achievements in the field of "nature education", will also be awarded on 26 September at 10 am.

The organisers – the Department of Primary School Education and Childhood Research at the University of Erfurt, the Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and Media (ThILLM) and the Federal Working Group for Educational Gardens – are already looking forward to good discussions and an exciting programme on the didactic theme of "Historical learning in educational garden lessons": "There will be a keynote speech by Cornelia Jäger, which we are particularly looking forward to," says Katy Wenzel, one of the organisers of the annual conference. "And, of course, we are once again inviting you to take part in a varied supporting programme." Primary School children from the Erfurt Montessori School will perform a specially rehearsed educational garden rap, and there will be excursions to ega park and the horticultural museum as well as watercress cultivation. A "market of opportunities" with suggestions for cooperation with extracurricular educational institutions in the school garden context and a theatre performance entitled "Erfurt in light and shadow – a city history with a garden connection" round off the supporting programme.

Please refer to the event flyer for more details on the programme. Registration for the conference is possible at www.bag-schulgarten.de/aktuelles/jahrestagung.

Background

Many children today no longer know that cherries don't grow in plastic bowls and rhubarb doesn't grow on a tree. Or what a compost heap is. Many of them simply lack direct experience of nature. Their perception comes from second-hand sources – the internet, television or other media. Fortunately, there are educational gardening lessons. Because the less contact children have with nature, the more important the educational garden becomes. It offers children the opportunity to get to the bottom of biological and ecological phenomena. Here they can help shape and mould nature, plant something themselves and, of course, harvest it. The University of Erfurt offers an educational garden course for prospective teachers so that they can be competently accompanied. Incidentally, this is unique in Germany. Here, students have the opportunity to acquire specialised scientific and didactic skills.

contact:

Katy Wenzel
Katy Wenzel
Research associate
(Faculty of Education)
Lehrgebäude 2 / Room 214a
+49 361 737-2152
+49 361 737-2109
katy.wenzel@uni-erfurt.de
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