Art Project for Ecology Awareness: Using School Gardens, Plants, and Environments

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A study discussing an ecology awareness art project using school gardens, plants and environments. Noting that a recent survey found almost 50% of children cited ecological problems as the world's biggest problem, it draws on frameworks including Freire's critical pedagogy, Dewey's "art as experience," and the concept of haptic, multi-sensory perception, to propose an art education project through which children actively engage with ecological awareness and solutions, presenting various such ecology art education projects using school gardens, plants and environments.