Growing environmental stewards: The overall effect of a school gardening program on environmental attitudes and environmental locus of control of different demographic groups of elementary school children

HortTechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 243-249

  Aguilar, O M ^a   Waliczek, T M ^b   Zajicek, J M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental education; Experiential education; Integrated education

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149124929     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.18.2.243     Document Type: Article

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