与自然共成长:用校园中的棉田打造自然学习基地

Growing With Nature:School Cotton Field for Nature-Based Learning

“校园中的半亩棉田”是由中国农业大学携手清华附中永丰学校小学部、中国农业大学附属实验小学等学校共同发起的参与式校园景观营造项目。为回应当今社会在大中小学开展“劳动教育”的需求,响应国家关于涉农高校加强“耕读教育”的指导要求,本项目聚焦低效利用的校园绿化用地,种植棉花代替常见的景观植物,以大学及小学师生为参与主体,打造校园棉田耕读教育场地,并借助棉田场地开展棉田农事、棉艺创作等活动,构建以农历年为周期的创新型耕读教育模式。项目旨在让学生亲身参与农耕劳作,感受自然的力量,在劳动中启发创新与探索精神;引导学生回归生活,在与土地的连接中思考万事万物的本源,懂得珍惜身边的一草一木;让校园景观中的一隅充分发挥其场所价值,丰富校园中的劳动教育场景,在耕作中实现中华传统耕读文化的传承。

“School Cotton Field”is a participatory landscape design project jointly initiated by China Agricultural University,Primary School Division of Tsinghua University High School Yongfeng,Primary School Affiliated to China Agricultural University,and other schools.To meet the call for labor education in schools at all levels,as well as the national guidance on strengthening farming-reading education in agricultural colleges,this project proposes to plant cotton,rather than common landscape vegetation underutilized green spaces on campus to create a site for farming-reading education,involving teachers,students,and their parents.The School Cotton Field provides opportunities for activities such as farming and cotton artworks making,establishing an innovative model of farming-reading education based on the Chinese calendar.The project allows students to get inspired for innovation and exploration by farming,and to learn the deep connections between human and nature,as well as the value of living creatures on the land in daily life.It also takes full advantage of the campus landscape to enhance its role in providing labor education,thus to revive the traditional Chinese farming-reading culture on modern campus.