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Database research record2019·Global

Gardening with children and pre-service teachers

Janice Kroeger, Terri Cardy, Abigail E. Recker, Lynn Gregor, Aubrey Ryan, Anna Beckwith, Jacob Dunwiddie

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This study aimed to enhance pre-service teachers' abilities to engage in hands-on work in school gardens with primary and preschool children. A professor and her students worked to build reciprocity and social connections globally. This initiative involved North American and Ghanaian Elders collaborating to nurture children's understanding of growing spaces and address the common notion of caring for the Earth.