What is the nature of the relationship horticulture educators have with plants? /

Eight horticulture educators, from community colleges and 4-

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merton, Prudence
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:Eight horticulture educators, from community colleges and 4-
model by which similar relationships are fostered in
mutually exclusive. What then, are the kinds of
nature of their relationship with plants. Five primary
No participant fell neatly into any one category. Rather,
offers an hypothesis that the horticulture educators'
predominant. At some point in their lives, each participant
professional/utilitarian relationships with plants were
Professional/Utilitarian, Moralistic, Aesthetic and Symbolic.
related to plants from one of these modes. This thesis
relationship with plants, because it informs teaching, is a
relationships appeared from the data: Naturalistic,
relationships with plants our universities and colleges want
students. As seen in this study, these relationships are not
they all related to plants from a number of different
to foster?
viewpoints. By far, the naturalistic and the
year institutions, were interviewed in order to ascertain the
Item Description:"Major subject: Horticulture Science".
Vita.
Physical Description:v, 43 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.