Små frön som gror - En studie om barns naturumgänge genom stadsodling

Sammanfattning: Looking back at the past generations, a growing alienation to nature has occurred. As humans moved into cities, they have had less contact with nature and in such a lesser awareness of the environment. Children go to school indoors and have little contact with the natural world or knowledge about where food comes from. In this essay I have through qualitative research, where I conducted five interviews and visited five different urban gardens, explored how children in cities can use urban gardens to learn about gardening and create a closer relationship to their perceived nature. With this being my aim, I further explore in which ways children can get in touch their local environment to reduce the alienation that has occurred. Giving children a place of creation, from physical to imaginative, incites a stronger bond to the area of which they live. The theories used in this thesis are based on experience-based learning, alienation from nature and how we can communicate or should communicate climate change with children. Experiencing the world through their senses gives a deeper internalized perception of the experience, whether it be holding a worm, hearing the bees or planting a seed.