ABSTRACT

This research aims to contribute to the literature on embedding financial literacies in a school market garden programme. It seeks to do this by using one school market gardening programme in an Australian primary education setting as a case study, exploring its role and perceived benefits in developing financial literacies in students. This research utilised a qualitative research design, adopting semi-structured interviews to allow for emerging ideas, focus groups involving parents, student cohorts and garden volunteers, and participant observation to enhance data collection for triangulation. The results show that students involved in the market garden programme had positive experiences relating to their learning of financial literacies. This article proposes several recommendations that may further develop the financial literacy learning outcomes of students. These recommendations are grouped into two main themes: (1) involving students more in the management of the programme, and (2) improved record keeping.

摘要

本研究旨在为有关将金融知识嵌入学校市场花园计划的文献做出贡献。它试图通过在澳大利亚小学教育环境中使用一个学校市场园艺项目作为案例研究来做到这一点，探索其在培养学生金融知识方面的作用和感知的好处。这项研究采用了定性研究设计，采用半结构化访谈以允许出现新想法，涉及家长、学生群体和花园志愿者的焦点小组，以及参与观察以加强三角测量的数据收集。结果表明，参与市场花园计划的学生在学习金融知识方面有积极的经验。本文提出了一些建议，可以进一步提高学生的金融知识学习成果。这些建议分为两个主题：（1）让学生更多地参与课程管理，以及（2）改进记录保存。