ABSTRACT

This article analyzes an educational initiative between Kew Gardens, Royal Holloway, University of London, and two London primary schools. The schools, located in areas of high ethnic diversity, worked with the members of the Mobile Museum project team – including the Learning Department at Kew and researchers at both institutions – to create their own school museums. The idea was inspired by historical research conducted by the project team that demonstrated Kew’s historic involvement in the promotion of object-based learning in schools. The project team worked with teachers and pupils to develop a participatory approach to learning about plants and their uses through the creation of school museums. A whole-school framework was adopted, extending the potential reach of the project to pupils’ parents and communities. Inspired by the collections at Kew, schools used plants and plant-associated artifacts to learn more about the rich diversity of pupils' cultural backgrounds and the importance of plants to their heritage and their everyday lives.

摘要

本文分析了邱园、皇家霍洛威学院、伦敦大学和两所伦敦小学之间的一项教育计划。这些位于种族多样性高的地区的学校与移动博物馆项目团队的成员——包括基尤的学习部门和两个机构的研究人员——合作创建了自己的学校博物馆。这个想法的灵感来自项目团队进行的历史研究，该研究表明 Kew 历史性地参与促进学校基于对象的学习。项目团队与教师和学生合作，通过创建学校博物馆，开发了一种学习植物及其用途的参与式方法。采用了全校框架，将项目的潜在影响范围扩大到学生的父母和社区。