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Integrating Community Into the Classroom: Community Gardening, Community Involvement, and Project-Based Learning

Regina Day Langhout, Julian Rappaport, Doretha Simmons

Urban Education

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This article discusses the tensions faced in facilitating the relationship between teachers and community members while working on a community garden project. The authors adopt an ecological model for effective classroom-community collaboration and discuss how this process unfolded in the current setting. The evaluation includes a discussion of common and disparate goals of teachers and community members and how differences are navigated in the current milieu.