The “Cheiro Verde no Quintal da Escola” Project: literacy for and by the environment
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-0221.2018v15n31p154Abstract
Since 2013, the teaching, research and outreach project entitled “Cheiro Verde no Quintal da Escola” (literally: Smell of Green in the School Garden) has been developed at Colégio de Aplicação, a primary and secontry school linked to the Federeal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Still in progress, the Project advocates a multi- and transdisciplinary work on environmental issues, addressing the importance of sustainable models for planting, healthy eating, and protection of nature with primary students, the university community, and society in general. Using the school’s vegetable garden, orchard and other spaces as a kind of living laboratory, the Project has made students and families aware of diverse environmental issues and has pointed out the benefits of a closer contact with nature. As a result, they have become environmentally literate and disseminators of the values they learn and practice in the Project for the environment’s sake, which helps them read and write autonomously in the very first year of primary school.
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