Planting a Seed of Experience - Long Term Effects of a Co-curricular Ecogarden-Based Program in Higher Education in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT: This paper reports on the long-term effectiveness of a non-formal co-curricular educational program based on a campus ecogarden at a Hong Kong university in developing pro-sustainability awareness, attitudes and behavior among undergraduate students. This service-based, nature-based experiential learning program, termed the Ecogarden Farmer and Biodiversity Surveyor, has been running at the university since 2015. The program is divided into two consecutive phases: a training phase comprising various learning activities and a successive internship phase consisting of the all-round practical tasks involved in managing the garden. A retrospective evaluation of the program using phenomenographic approach and content analysis was adopted to reveal the diversity of students' learning experience,

SUBMITTER: Cheang CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843962 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature