Education and research
The living collections in the Botanical Garden contain plants from all over the world and include wild species as well as plants cultivated by man for various purposes. We welcome students and researchers who wish to use the collections and garden for teaching and research purposes.
Current projects:
Object-based learning
Knowledge can be represented, conveyed and acquired in many different ways and in environments other than ordinary classrooms. Object-based learning (OBL) is an interactive pedagogical method that uses physical objects as a starting point to stimulate the students' learning and understanding abilities, in contrast to more traditional lectures. The students work actively with the objects, which can for example be art objects, museum objects or living things.
OBL as a concept is relatively new in Sweden but is used more frequently at universities abroad for creative and experiential learning.
The Botanical Garden and OBL
Plants are everywhere around us and influence our lives in more ways than we might think of in everyday life, for example economically, culturally and historically. Based on the Botanical Garden's collections of living plants, the students can work on questions in widely different subject areas.
By connecting abstract and theoretical concepts to concrete objects, it is easier to understand and remember the information you gather. The object-based learning activates several senses, and by, for example, seeing, touching and smelling a plant, impressions arise that strengthen the learning capability. Places outside the lecture allow other types of interaction and learning and many students find it inspiring and motivating to use the Botanic Garden as an alternative classroom.
Are you interested in using the Botanical Garden in your teaching? Welcome to contact us if you want to use the plant collections and to book viewings for you and your students.
Contact
Questions regarding teaching and plants:
Curator Julia Borg
agneta_julia [dot] borg [at] botan [dot] lu [dot] se
Curator Sofie Olofsson
sofie [dot] olofsson [at] botan [dot] lu [dot] se
Questions regarding research projects:
Director Allison Perrigo
allison_linnea [dot] perrigo [at] botan [dot] lu [dot] se