Mapping Community Gardens in the Australian National Curriculum: A Curriculum Analysis Model

Autor/inn/en	Walshe, Rachael; Evans, N. S.; Law, Lisa
Titel	Mapping Community Gardens in the Australian National Curriculum: A Curriculum Analysis Model
Quelle	In: Issues in Educational Research, 32 (2022) 2, S.784-804 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Walshe, Rachael) ORCID (Evans, N. S.) ORCID (Law, Lisa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-7155
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; National Curriculum; Gardening; Educational Policy; Alignment (Education); Word Frequency; Language Usage; Computational Linguistics; Humanities; Social Sciences; Health Education; Physical Education; Teaching Methods; Elementary Secondary Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gartenarbeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Sprachgebrauch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Australien
Abstract	The Australian Curriculum is a policy document that directly influences the lived realities of millions of students and teachers. However, navigating and understanding the Australian Curriculum can be confusing due to discipline-specific meta-language. This poses problems when attempting to access the Curriculum in research that extends beyond the Education discipline. In response, this paper proposes a novel model that facilitates the analysis of curriculum documents for those outside the Education discipline. To illustrate the method, the paper provides an example of how and where community gardens align with the content descriptions of the Australian Curriculum. A word frequency analysis suggests that community gardens are most closely aligned with the Humanities and Social Science's (HASS) and Health and Physical Education (HPE) learning areas. A word tree analysis thematically groups content descriptions and discusses how community gardens can support classroom implementation of both HASS and HPE. The method presented will benefit scholars outside the Education discipline who seek to engage with the curriculum. It also extends discussions surrounding how to best integrate gardens in schools. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. 5/202 Coode Street, Como, Western Australia 6152, Australia. e-mail: editor@iier.org.au; Web site: http://www.iier.org.au/iier.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01