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EJ509042 SE554549

Title: Childhood's Garden: Memory and Meaning of Gardens.
Author(s): Francis, Mark
Source: Children's Environments, v12 n2 p183-91 Jun 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0886-0505
Availability: Chapman & Hall, Inc., One Penn Plaza, 41st Fl., New York, NY 10119.
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC1995

Probes some of the conceptual meanings people attach to gardens, based on memories and
meanings of childhood gardens. The results of interviews with gardeners in California and
Norway are used to illustrate different meanings people attach to childhood gardens.
Concludes with some of the design, planning, and management issues facing childhood gardens.
(LZ)

Descriptors: *Childhood Attitudes; *Design; Elementary Secondary Education; Environmental
Education; Foreign Countries; Interviews; *Planning; Play; Playground Activities
Identifiers: Gardening; *Gardens; Nature Study; Norway

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