"Personal Meaning Mapping as a Tool to Uncover Learning from an Out-of-doors Free-choice Learning Garden" by Deborah L. Bailey and John H. Falk

Research in Outdoor Education

Article Title

Personal Meaning Mapping as a Tool to Uncover Learning from an Out-of-doors Free-choice Learning Garden

Authors

Deborah L. Bailey, Oregon State University
John H. Falk, Oregon State University

DOI

10.1353/roe.2016.0003

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p. 64-85. 22p.

Abstract

Garden-based learning (GBL), a form of outdoor education contextualized and framed within unpredictable and real-world learning environments, is ideally suited to the teaching of science. However, the vast majority of GBL educational research has utilized a cognitive and positivist research paradigm, one that artificially restricts the investigative lens. The goal of the larger project from which this paper was drawn was to develop a better understanding of how youth perceived a garden experience. This paper shares the affordances and constraints of the constructivist framework utilized and the primary measurement tool, Person Meaning Mapping (PMM). Despite some inherent limitations, the PMM methodology enabled important insights that enhanced understandings of the effects of GBL.

Recommended Citation

Bailey, Deborah L. and Falk, John H. (2016) "Personal Meaning Mapping as a Tool to Uncover Learning from an Out-of-doors Free-choice Learning Garden," Research in Outdoor Education: Vol. 14, Article 6.
DOI: 10.1353/roe.2016.0003
Available at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/reseoutded/vol14/iss1/6

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