Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Paul Faulstich
Reader 2
Nancy Neiman Auerbach
Reader 3
Susan Phillips
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
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© 2013 Emily I. Palena , Caroline T. Spurgin
Abstract
This thesis explores schoolyard-based education as a viable and necessary method for rectifying the shortcomings within the American public school system and the Nature-deficit Disorder epidemic. We argue that schoolyard-based education should be fully integrated into the school system, not in the sole form of popularized school gardens, but as a standard teaching method. We show this using extensive research and a case study of three elementary schools in Claremont, California.
Recommended Citation
Palena, Emily I. and Spurgin, Caroline T., "Landscapes to Learnscapes: Exploring Schoolyard-based Education" (2013). Pitzer Senior Theses. 34.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/34
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