Breakfast seminar School garden

How do we equip society and the next generations to be able to cultivate, cooperate, and care for both nature and each other? What do we need to learn, and how can we learn it?

– What can teachers and students learn and create together in the school garden? We share research and experiences from teachers who are at our gatherings, by Elisabeth Iversen

– "With kebab as a battery". Photosynthesis and cycles in practice, by Håkon Mella

– "What has happened to the garden here on campus, and where do we want to go next? A physical sustainability arena where we will facilitate teaching and social meetings on campus, by Kirsten Marthinsen

Those who want to can join in and plant small plants after the seminar. Welcome!

– Limited capacity. Sign-up: https://nettskjema.no/a/266560

– Zoom link, for the streaming: https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/65155937030

Speakers:

• Håkon Mella, Gardening Educator at Vitenparken

Håkon Mella works with school gardens both at Vitenparken in Ås and on teacher training at NMBU. He is a copywriter (Westerdals), in organic agriculture (Inland University College) and International Environmental and Development Studies at NMBU. In addition, he has worked with small-scale organic vegetable farming, as a chef, food writer, course and lecturer for a number of years.

• Kirsten Marthinsen, Gardening Educator at Vitenparken

Kirsten Marthinsen is a horticultural educator and works with school gardens both at Vitenparken in Ås and on the teacher training course at NMBU. She is a trained nature manager and associate professor in biology and nature management, and has worked with cultivation and dissemination in various forms. Plants have a particularly large place, both in her heart, in her garden, on her windowsill and on her bookshelf.

• Elisabeth Iversen, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology

Department of Teacher Education and Educational Sciences, NMBU

Elisabeth Iversen is particularly interested in outdoor education in science and nature management. She works as an associate professor in teacher education at NMBU, with a special focus on continuing education. Elisabeth is concerned with interdisciplinary teaching, student-active teaching methods and environmentally conscious citizenship.

What is a school garden?

A school garden is, as the name suggests, a garden used in a school context. In the garden, students can learn to grow food plants. In addition, the school garden is an arena for putting other subjects into practice, and for learning cooperation, ethics, and other skills and attitudes.

The school garden is the perfect arena for practical sustainability education. It has great potential as a laboratory and a window to the world. The interdisciplinary themes of public health and life skills and sustainable development from the new curriculum flow right into the teaching in the garden.

Find more information and school garden resources here.