Sustainability Education in School Garden-Based Learning Biological and Cultural Diversity

Stefan Jarau
is a professor of general science education and its didactics at the University College for Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria. His teaching areas cover the natural sciences, global learning, education for sustainable development and outdoor learning. His research focuses on children’s knowledge of plants and animals, their attitudes towards environmental issues, conceptual learning in primary school students and school garden education.

Dorothee Benkowitz
is a professor of biology and its didactics at the University of Education in Karlsruhe, Germany. She is head of
BAG Schulgarten
, an association for educators and pedagogues involved in school gardening. Her research interest is the impact of school gardening on the realization of education for sustainable development. She created a university garden together with students to strengthen their self-competence in outdoor and garden-based learning.