Gardening activities, education, and self-esteem: Learning outside the classroom

Urban Education

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 403-411

  Hoffman, August John ^a   Knight, Luis F Morales ^b   Wallach, Julie ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnocentrism; Student self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547975964     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085907304909     Document Type: Article

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