Walshe, Rachael, Law, Lisa, and Evans, Neus (Snowy) (2024) Understanding Environmental Generational Amnesia through urban school garden learning experiences in Gimuy/Cairns, Australia. Local Environment. (In Press)

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Abstract

This paper explores the potential role of school garden learning experiences in remediating Environmental Generational Amnesia (EGA). EGA is a generational type of environmental forgetting brought about by prolonged disconnection from ‘natural’ landscapes, with symptoms manifesting as poor motor skills, deficient food origin knowledge, a lack of environmental moral affiliation and undeveloped connections to place. Drawing on interviews with teachers, parents, counsellors, groundskeepers, and administrators at a Far North Queensland primary school, this paper explores how school garden learning experiences foster interaction patterns that combat EGA’s symptoms. We find that urban school gardens offer new possibilities for reassembling students into more-than-human local ecologies in ways that can remediate the manifestation of EGA.

Item ID:	83108
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1469-6711
Keywords:	Environmental Generational Amnesia, gardens, food disconnection, place, schools, more-than-human
Copyright Information:	© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Funders:	RTP scholarship and stipend
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2024 23:34
FoR Codes:	39 EDUCATION > 3999 Other Education > 399999 Other education not elsewhere classified @ 30% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4406 Human geography > 440601 Cultural geography @ 70%
SEO Codes:	13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1399 Other culture and society > 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified @ 70% 16 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 1601 Learner and learning > 160103 Primary education @ 30%
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