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READY, SET, GROW! “A Green Journey On Campus” – 7th Issue, September 2017.Teachers at this institute are using a garden not only to teach their students how to grow plants but also how to grow as people and future teachers themselves..Fazida Hj Osman, Mohd Fuzi Osman, and Ruslan Mohammad work at the Teachers Education Institute-Islamic Education Campus (IPG-KPI) in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor; Fazida, 54, Ruslan, 58, and Mohd Fuzi, 56, are in charge of the garden and the syllabus taught around it at IPG-KPI..“We wanted to build a campus in an orchard, not an orchard in a campus. We wanted our students to have some understanding of and love for nature and the environment. So we started by instilling a love for greenery by getting them to begin gardening,” said Fazida on how the garden started..“That’s what makes this course different. Environmental Education covers many things, and you have to think of the values, the creativity of the students – when we choose a plant for them to grow, for example, we also have to choose the values that the plant can teach the students. We want to educate them, not just teach.”.Read more about IPG Bangi and their journey to green their campus in Star2, The Star* #eatsshootsandroots #garden #ReadySetGrowESR #TheStar .* Don’t forget to get yourself a copy of The Star newspaper today!
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