The 5th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
Connecting with Plants: Lessons for Life
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 2002
Novel Methods in Interpretation and Communication
Environmental education through Eco Clubs in selected schools in three districts of Tamil Nadu, India
Amirtham Alexander & John S Britto, Annai Genetic Garden, Tamil Nadu, IndiaInterpreting the garden for visitors with sight difficulties
Christine Preston, University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens, UKBotanical boats
Jenny Stuart, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane, Australia
Linking Science with Sustainability
‘This Dome is Your Home’: using an icon facility to teach education for sustainability
Jan Ellis, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, AustraliaDeveloping a conservation garden as a centre for the ‘Every child a scientist’ programme
N. Anil Kumar & V. P. Sajeev, Wayanad, Kerala, IndiaSetting up a new education department - strategies and partnerships
Christine Millican, National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Multiculturalism and Indigenous Issues in Interpretation
Connecting to culture
Steve Meredith Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia, Australia
Forming Partnerships
Forming partnerships: insights from southern Africa
Pat Irwin & Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Environmental Education Unit, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South AfricaAlien invaders: learning about biodiversity by monitoring environmental weeds
Gary Shadforth, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, South Yarra, Victoria, AustraliaLinking with schools for joint interpretive processes
Abel Barasa Atiti, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi Botanic Garden, Nairobi, KenyaEncounters with naturalists
Catherine Ducatillion & Steve Meredith, Jardin Botanique de la Villa Thuret, Antibes, France & Steve Meredith, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCommunity participation in exhibit development
Carolann Walach Baldyga, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Maimi, Florida, USACollaborating for conservation: how can botanic gardens staff in developed and developing countries work together to promote education and conservation in the botanical hotspots of the world?
Didik Widyatmoko & Lorraine Perrins, Center for Plant Conservation, Bogor Botanic Gardens, Bogor, Indonesia & Lorraine Perrins, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, AustraliaChildren’s gardens: an international partnership using the Internet
Loïc Ruellan, Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest, Brest, FranceSetting up a new education department – developing strategies and forming partnerships
Chris Millican, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Volunteering
Volunteering in focus: the panoramic view
Janelle Hatherly, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaThe pleasures and pitfalls of guiding at Kew
Barbara Boyle, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, U.K.Volunteering in focus: the broad picture
Carolann Walach Baldyga, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
Evaluation and Research
What learning? What theory?
Katherine Stewart, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaChanging the face of a botanic garden by tackling the concept of sustainability head on: the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and our learning curve
Robert Brett, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UKEvaluating the impact of a teacher development programme
Eugenie Novellie, Pretoria National Botanical Garden, South Africa