GAZETTE FUTURE, Vol. 5 No. 3, 2022.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.32779/gf.5.3.5
Teaching floriculture: An educational experience from research to action – Case study
Kiril Bahćevandžiev
orcid.org/0000-0002-2208-2946
; Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Agriculture School, Bencanta, Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (CERNAS), 3045-601 Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract
Floriculture and Landscape management is a Curricular Unit (CU) that makes part of the BSc Degree
course in Crops and Livestock Engineering (DCLE) at the Coimbra Agriculture School, belonging to
the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal. It is an important subject in flower industry as it
occupies the third place of the agricultural production in Portugal, after viticulture and arable crops.
Teaching a floriculture is challenging as students’ can chose it as their future professional occupation
and requires a lot of collaboration between the students, teachers, and the florist industry. The purpose
of this study was to define what can be the best way to stimulate future students in floriculture and
define the best way of teaching this subject. For this purpose, a query was elaborated with students
that followed this CU.
Keywords
floriculture, industry, employment, learning and teaching methods.
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Publication date:
30.9.2022.
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