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Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.
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Radio Use of Urban-Agricultural Public Service Announcements
1970Clifford W. Scherer · Journal of Applied Communications · United States
A 1970 article situates the traditional rural orientation of agricultural extension audiences historically, noting that 66% of the U.S. population was rural when the land-grant colleges were established, and that more than a quarter of the population still lived on farms 52 years later when the Smith-Lever Act created the Cooperative Extension Service. The abstract text provided contains only this historical background and no specific findings about the actual use of radio public service announcements for urban agriculture.
CommunityFood educationManual Training in the Bulgarian Elementary Schools
1959Rayna Sharova · Soviet Education · Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, labor education was introduced into general schools shortly after World War I, with manual training for boys and handwork and domestic science for girls. After 1921, "Subotniks" (Sundays) were organized for pupils to perform mass work, including harvesting on school property, planting trees in drought-ridden lands, and cultivating school gardens and flower beds.
Food educationCommunityThe School Garden and its Organization in Schools of Industrial Centers
1959Aleksandr Filatov · Soviet Education · Russia (Moscow)
This text suggests that school garden areas in large industrial centers like Moscow should be integrated into the city's green spaces, functioning as well-planned squares within their district subdivisions. It asserts that this integration does not conflict with the garden's designated role as a living laboratory for the school.
Food educationCommunityPolicyThe School Garden, an Outdoor Laboratory for Teaching
1953Margaret H. Oliver · The American Biology Teacher · United States
An article by Margaret H. Oliver discussing the school garden as an outdoor laboratory for science teaching, published in The American Biology Teacher in 1953.
Food educationAn Elementary School Garden Project
1944Lydia Elzey · The American Biology Teacher · United States
This record is a research article titled "An Elementary School Garden Project" by Lydia Elzey, published in The American Biology Teacher in 1944. The abstract provides only publication details and states that the content is only available via PDF, with no further information about the project itself.
Food educationCommunitySchool Gardens for Victory
1942Earl R. Gabler · The Clearing House A Journal of Educational Strategies Issues and Ideas · United States
A 1942 article in The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas (Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 469-472) titled "School Gardens for Victory"; the available record provides only this bibliographic citation, with no further abstract content.
Food educationCommunityOrganized Citizen Effort in Behalf of Public Education
1923Howard Weabster Nudd · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · United States
A 1923 essay on the role of citizen organizations in the history of American public education. It argues that developments in public education — from the establishment of the first public school through compulsory attendance, high schools, normal schools, kindergartens, evening and trade schools, playgrounds, school gardens, music, drawing, manual and household arts training, physical training, medical inspection, school lunches, school nurses, visiting teachers, and classes for children with disabilities or exceptional ability — were made possible, especially in their initial stages, by outside financial and other assistance from citizen organizations.
Food educationPolicyLectures on housing. The warburton lectures for 1914. By B. Seebohm Rowntree and A. C. Pigou. Manchester: The University Press. 50 cents
1914John Ihlder · National Municipal Review · United States (New York City)
This abstract, from "Lectures on housing" (1914), describes various activities initiated by public schools, including normal schools, kindergartens, evening schools, trade schools, vacation schools, playgrounds, and school gardens. It also mentions music, drawing, manual training, household arts, physical training, medical inspection, school nurses, special classes for children with disabilities, visiting teachers, and school lunches. Part 2 of the primer summarizes the aims and activities of the New York association.
Food educationCommunityThe history of the delling‐house and its future. By Robert Ellis Thompson. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.00
1914John Ihlder · National Municipal Review · United States (New York City)
This 1914 item is a short notice of Robert Ellis Thompson's book 'The History of the Delling-House and Its Future,' priced at $1.00, appended to a summary of New York public-school activities including normal schools, kindergartens, evening and trade schools, vacation schools, playgrounds, school gardens, music, drawing, manual training, household arts, physical training, medical inspection, school nurses, classes for disabled children, visiting teachers and school lunches.
Food educationCommunityHealthWelfareVilla Juanita Community Garden
1905Diana Paola Betancurth Loaiza, Natalia Sánchez Palacio, Jorge Lino Moreno Aricapa · Repositorio Universidad de Caldas · Colombia
This report details the experience of implementing the Urban Community Garden in the Villa Juanita neighborhood. The project focused on fostering urban agriculture as a strategy to improve food security and promote sustainability within the community. The garden became a space for community participation where diverse sustainable agricultural practices were integrated. Through this project, social cohesion was strengthened, environmental education was promoted, and spaces for interaction and collective learning were generated.
CommunityFood educationFood sovereignty & justiceOrganic cycleA School Garden
1905Nina Leubrie · The Elementary School Teacher · United States
In October, upon the school's opening, many flowers were still blooming in "Grandmother's Garden" at Lincoln Park. The children desired to plant hollyhocks, hardy chrysanthemums, and bright autumn flowers in front of their building, but it was determined to be too late for fall flowers. Consequently, it was decided that spring flowers would be planted using bulbs, for which catalogues were obtained, and pictures and descriptions were studied.
Food educationCommunityNew Elementary Agriculture for Rural and Graded Schools
1903Charles E. Bessey, Lawrence Bruner, Goodwin D. Swezey · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · United States
An 1903 essay on elementary agricultural education in Nebraska, United States, argues for teaching agriculture and nature study — including through school gardens — in connection with subjects such as geography, arithmetic, science, and literature, noting that Nebraska's school law required teachers to pass an examination on the elements of agriculture. The piece is an advocacy essay and contains no empirical data.
Food educationThe School Garden
1902Wilbur S. Jackman · The Elementary School Teacher and Course of Study · Global
The school garden is a useful accessory for nature study from aesthetic, economic, or botanical viewpoints. While aesthetics offer strong attractions, the most important aspect is understanding plant habits and their adaptations to soil, light, heat, air, and other plants, as a garden cannot grow beautifully without this knowledge.
Food educationEconomicsFirst Grade
1902Flora J. Cooke, Elsie A. Wygant, Lorley Ada Ashléman · The Elementary School Teacher and Course of Study · United States
A 1902 account of a pedagogical activity in which children in the School of Education planted part of a garden for children attending the summer model school, who would then pickle, can or otherwise preserve the crops and maintain a window box of blooming plants left for the returning students. The article describes how the activity integrated manual training (building boxes and trellises), science (germination experiments, soil observation), number work (estimating costs, measuring), reading, and expression (recording growth through painting, writing and modeling) into an instructional plan.
Food educationCommunityWelfare