Teaching practices of the natural environment in higher education. A teaching-learning experience with Organic Learning Gardens in Early Childhood Education

This article examines the benefits and the need for Organic Learning Gardens in a university setting, with a view to the initial training of teachers in agro-environmental topics. The objective is to describe an educational innovation experience on agroecological teaching-learning processes carried out in a pioneering way in the Degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of the Balearic Islands. The innovation consisted of the design and management of an orchard garden with a view to its transposition as a school garden and outdoor materials present in any natural environment, and to acquire skills to put them into practice in actual schools.