The Indigenous Garden Project: Reflecting on Land-Based Education, Decolonizing and Garden Spaces in British Columbia’s K-12 Education System
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Indigenous Garden Project was a garden classroom built for the Nala’atsi Program, an Indigenous alternate education program. The project, initially envisioned as purely a garden, was built into a Science 11 course for students attending the alternate program. Students, staff and community members contributed to the planning and building of the multi-use area. The garden contained over fifty different plants (including native plants used for food and medicines by Indigenous peoples), a greenhouse, and a cedar smokehouse. The project centered on Indigenous pedagogies, incorporated Elders and knowledge keepers into the learning space, and provided students with the opportunity to experience science in a hands-on experiential learning environment. This reflective paper outlines the beginnings, building process and end of the project. It details the experience of the garden for the author, several students and a Nala’atsi staff. The literature review discusses the importance of decolonization in education systems, issues regarding racism and settler colonialism in outdoor education, land-based learning versus place-based learning and the benefits of garden-based learning environments. Reflections and recommendation for educators who wish to begin a garden-based learning space are provided. The paper also provides reflections and requirements for educators about incorporating Indigenous education in a decolonizing way into their teaching.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".