Planting Seeds Project
The Planting Seeds project makes a case in support of conducting a participatory qualitative inquiry with high school students to explore students’ views and perspectives on their participation in a holistic and ecologically sustainable curriculum implemented in the after-school program at an urban-setting public high school.
This project embraces an integrated outlook on sustainability education, positioning students as embodied learners: “active agents,” “chefs,” and “empowering consumers,” artists,” “spiritual movers,” “environmental activists” or “scientists,” and “community advocates” who critically engage with the places, spaces, and/or lands where they live, play, cook, move, interact, make art, curate, dance, discover, connect with nature, and express their embodied learning with imagination for individual and community flourishing.
In line with community-based and humanizing research for social change, the Planting Seeds project employs participatory visual methods, embracing dialogic consciousness-raising and relationship-building through dignity, respect, and care, with a commitment to work with and for research participants positioned as co-researchers.
Students as Embodied Learners
Positioning students in a variety of roles, Planting Seeds frames students as community members who critically engage with the places, spaces, and/or lands where they live, play, cook, move, interact, make art, curate, dance, discover, connect with nature, and express their embodied learning with imagination for individual and community flourishing.
Students as Embodied Learners
Positioning students in a variety of roles, Planting Seeds frames students as community members who critically engage with the places, spaces, and/or lands where they live, play, cook, move, interact, make art, curate, dance, discover, connect with nature, and express their embodied learning with imagination for individual and community flourishing.
Students as Embodied Learners
Positioning students in a variety of roles, Planting Seeds frames students as community members who critically engage with the places, spaces, and/or lands where they live, play, cook, move, interact, make art, curate, dance, discover, connect with nature, and express their embodied learning with imagination for individual and community flourishing.
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In line with community-based and humanizing research for social change, Planting Seeds project employs participatory visual methods, embracing dialogic consciousness-raising and relationship-building through dignity, respect, and care, with a commitment to work with and for research participants positioned as co-researchers.