"Children and Youth Gardening"
"Children and Youth Gardening" is the title of a special issue planned for Applied Environmental Education & Communication (AEEC) . This issue will be guest edited by Mark A. Miller, Post Doctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University. You have been contacted specifically to determine interest on your part in proposing a paper, subject to the journal's usual refereeing processes. Papers should be no more than 3,500 words in length, and should contribute significantly to contemporary understandings of applied environmental education and communication through children and youth gardens and gardening. The special issue will contain approximately eight articles/field reports and two book reviews.
The question of whether practitioners of plant-based education conceptualize their efforts as fitting solidly within applied environmental education and communications may remain to be answered; however, what is clearly evident is the fact that establishment of children and youth gardens and plant-based education activities in formal, informal, and non-formal educational settings is a strong and growing trend in the U.S. and elsewhere. The primary aim of this issue of Applied Environmental Education & Communication is to advance the dialogue among and between practitioners of plant-based education in applying new understandings of children and youth gardening to the development of frameworks for improving the practice, theory, evaluation, and future research efforts of the discipline. For example, articles/field reports could address one of the following questions:
- What do we know? Advance understanding within the field by consolidating and synthesizing a shared knowledge base of current research, grounded theories, concepts and constructs relating to how individuals and groups learn through children & youth garden/gardening experiences.
- What has worked? Promote effective practice by examining the catalysts and aids that support the design and development of programs, materials, exhibitions, and gardens based on sound understandings of how individuals and groups learn through children & youth garden/gardening experiences.
- What has not worked? Promote effective practice by examining the challenges and barriers that hinder the design and development of programs, materials, exhibitions, and gardens based on sound understandings of how individuals and groups learn through children & youth garden/gardening experiences.
- What are the best practices and approaches? Identify and broadly disseminate research-based best practices and promising approaches of how individuals and groups learn through children & youth garden/gardening experiences.
- How do we stay connected and go forward? Enhance the infrastructure of the field by developing strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between research, future research efforts, and practice.
AEEC: An International Journal
Applied Environmental Education and Communication is a scholarly, peer-reviewed quarterly for both academics and practitioners. It presents the latest environmental developments in the fields of education, communication, social marketing, journalism, and behavioral science, as well as information on sustainability education, environmental interpretation, risk communication, public relations and outreach, environmental health communication, governmental and corporate public awareness, and environmental campaigns around the world.
Applied Environmental Education and Communication provides practitioners with specific recommendations based on experience and research. Authors are encouraged to report what worked and what did not and to make suggestions for future strategies. This multidisciplinary journal is written in a straightforward style with a minimum of technical jargon.
Applied Environmental Education and Communication is published in association with the North American Association for Environmental Education, the Australian Association for Environmental Education, and the IUCN World Conservation Union - Commission on Education and Communication. These Associations allow members in good standing to receive a personal subscription at reduced rates.
Submission of Research Articles and Field Reports
Research Articles are based on original quantitative or qualitative research and are of particular relevance to practitioners in the field. For example, they may show how theories of learning or behavior change were applied in a project. The emphasis is always on what worked and what didn't in different situations and why. Maximum length of articles: 3,500 words.
Field Reports are factual accounts of items of interest such as emerging research or issues, analysis of major campaigns or trends in funding flows. They must contain suggestions for replication in other cultures or institutions . Maximum length of articles: 3,500 words.
For further information about Applied Environmental Education & Communication and article/field report submission guidelines, visit the AEEC web site at: www.aeec.org
Submission Timeline
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit articles and field reports in a manner to allow for quick turn-around. The deadline for submission is November 1, 2006 .
This special issue is anticipated to be the third issue of 2007. Applied Environmental Education & Communication is, again, a quarterly journal.
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