Mar 4, 2020
“Analysis of Children's Drawings to Gain Insight into Plant Blindness” with Dr. Christina Hargiss and Dr. Paula Comeau
Plant blindness is a phenomenon that, despite its name, has nothing to do with whether or not plants can see. It is actually defined as our inability to see or value the plants around us. Interdisciplinary researchers Drs. Christina Hargiss and Paula Comeau have spent a lot of time digging down to the “roots” of this problem, with research touching anything from psychology to history, cryptography, literature, art and more. This episode, we discuss their work studying plant blindness and mental models in children’s art.
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If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.4195/nse2019.05.0009
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Resources
CEU Quiz Part 1: http://www.agronomy.org/education/classroom/classes/784
CEU Quiz Part 2: http://www.agronomy.org/education/classroom/classes/785
CSA News article, “Plant Blindness: How Seeing Green Creates Cultural Disengagement with Agriculture": https://doi.org/10.1002/csan.20056
“Challenges Conducting Research with Adolescents in Public Schools” by Kory Bonnell: dx.doi.org/10.4195/nse2018.01.0002
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History article by Patrick McShea: https://carnegiemnh.org/plant-blindness/
BBC Article by Christine Ro: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190425-plant-blindness-what-we-lose-with-nature-deficit-disorder
Plant Science Bulletin: https://www.botany.org/bsa/psb/2001/psb47-1.pdf
“Botany and environmental education in elementary school in Brazil: Articulating knowledge, values, and procedures” by Loureiro and Dal-Farra. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2017.1343280
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