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Understanding environmental generational amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia

Rachael Walshe, Lisa Law, Neus Evans

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This paper explores the potential of urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia, to remediate Environmental Generational Amnesia (EGA). Drawing on interviews with various staff at a Far North Queensland primary school, the study found that school garden experiences foster interaction patterns that combat EGA's symptoms, offering new possibilities for reassembling students into local ecologies and remediating EGA manifestations.