The 6th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
Sunday 10th – Thursday 14th September 2006

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Botanic Gardens Conservation International

University of Oxford

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

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Achieving Sustainability: Ideas and Solutions

Education for All - Working with Challenging Audiences

Reflection on Practice

Public Awareness of Plants

Theme: Achieving Sustainability: Ideas and Solutions

Alla Andreeva, Moscow University Botanic Garden, Russia and Dr Elena Pushai, Botanic Garden of Tver State University, Russia.
Education for sustainable development: successful activities

Bill Graham, Farming and Countryside Education (FACE), UK.
Personalising the food chain

Laura Hobley, BGCI, UK.
Sustainable funding for education programmes

Prof. Dmitry N. Kavtaradze, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Simulations and games in education for sustainable development

Mike Kerkman and Mikki Heydorff, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, USA.
Train to sustain: lasting, quality programming through innovative methods in volunteer training

Reni Lestari, Center for Plant Conservation-Bogor Botanical Gardens-Indonesian Institute of Science, Indonesia
Plant-based education in Indonesia: Practice, gaps and challenges - Target 14

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Theme: Education for All: Working with Challenging Audiences

Elyssa Arnone & Barbara Kurland, Brooklyn Botanic Garden USA.
Strengthening your garden programmes for teenagers: a hands-on workshop

Brian Johnson, BGCI, USA, Dr Maite Lascurain, BGCI, Mexico, Dr Marcela Sanchez, BGCI, Argentina.
Setting up a national botanic garden day

Caroline Lewis, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, USA.
The Fairchild Challenge: Linking public gardens, schools and communities

Kim Pierpoint, Thrive, UK and Pat Ealey, The Holly Lodge Centre, UK.
Working with groups with special educational needs

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Theme: Reflection on Practice

Dr Suzanne Kapelari, Costantino Bonomi, Gail Bromley, Dr Sue Johnson, Dr Krasimir Kossev, Vera Grancharova.
Teaching across the borders – a collaborative project developing a ‘good practice’ manual and resource for teachers and botanic garden educators in four European Union countries

Sam Kendall and Pam Horton, Eden Project UK.
Creative strategies for evaluating teaching and learning on out of school visits.

Jacqui Kennedy, Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth, Australia.
Streakers, strollers and studiers – A sign of the times down under

Laurel McIvor, Canadian Botanical Garden Education Network, Canada.
Planting the seeds of biodiversity

Lisa Orgler, Reiman Gardens, Iowa State University, USA.
Dimensional design: a holistic approach to garden planning

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Theme: Public Awareness of Plants

Katia Astafieff and Pierre-François Valck, Le Montet Botanical Gardens, Nancy, France.
Making exhibitions come alive!

Sarah Chesters, RHS Rosemoor, UK
Weaving and dyeing with plants

Sarah Dixon & Diane Wyse Jackson, BGCI, UK.
www.bgci.org – A two-way relationship: How BGCI’s website can help you and how you can help BGCI’s website

Ian Edwards, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland and Sandy Tanck, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, USA.
Sense of wonder: creating engaging exhibitions

Antoinette Eyssell and Taki Mamatsharaga South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa.
School indigenous greening programme

Associate Prof. Khaled Sawalha, Al Quds University, Palestine. Keith Tomlinson, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, USA. Dr David Michener, University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nicols Arboretum.
The place of religion and spirituality in botanic gardens in relation to plant conservation

Keith Tomlinson, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, USA.
Strategies for interpreting the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

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