SUSTAINABILITY STEW: A RECIPE FOR PROBLEM FRAMING AND DISCUSSION
Catherine Chambers is a doctoral fellow in the Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic NSF-IGERT program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. As a recipient of Fulbright and Leifur Eiríksson scholarships, she is currently conducting research through the Blönduós Academic Center...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1049.5746 2023-05-15T15:12:14+02:00 SUSTAINABILITY STEW: A RECIPE FOR PROBLEM FRAMING AND DISCUSSION Fairbanks Catherine P Chambers Matthew L Druckenmiller The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1049.5746 http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CatherineChambersSustainabilityStew_FinalSubmission_May2013PDFReady.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1049.5746 http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CatherineChambersSustainabilityStew_FinalSubmission_May2013PDFReady.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CatherineChambersSustainabilityStew_FinalSubmission_May2013PDFReady.pdf text ftciteseerx 2020-04-05T00:25:17Z Catherine Chambers is a doctoral fellow in the Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic NSF-IGERT program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. As a recipient of Fulbright and Leifur Eiríksson scholarships, she is currently conducting research through the Blönduós Academic Center in ABSTRACT: The concepts and practices surrounding sustainability are increasingly the focus of many new post-secondary and graduate education programs. However, the term sustainability refers to a complex mixture of disciplines, methods, contexts, and topics. This complexity is often confusing and can create barriers to learning. Comprehensive understanding of sustainability issues requires that students engage in an active learning process, focusing on context and perspective. Our "Sustainability Stew" curriculum, designed by doctoral students in various fields related to sustainability, is intended to guide sustainability education while offering the freedom to explore complex issues in an active, project-based learning environment. In this paper, we provide background and details for the design of the Sustainability Stew Guide and report results from student surveys on the curriculum itself from one undergraduate sociology course at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (n=37), one community college course at Delaware Technical and Community College (n=11), and one graduate-level research group at the University of Delaware (n=7). Student survey results and instructor reports suggest that the Sustainability Stew curriculum is an effective and innovative approach to sustainability education. Finally, we offer analysis and future directions for similar post-secondary sustainability education. Our objective is to offer a novel exercise to aid educators in teaching and discussing the concepts of sustainability in a way that encourages critical, multi-disciplinary engagement. Text Arctic Subarctic Alaska Unknown Arctic Blönduós ENVELOPE(-20.281,-20.281,65.659,65.659) Fairbanks |
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Catherine Chambers is a doctoral fellow in the Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic NSF-IGERT program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. As a recipient of Fulbright and Leifur Eiríksson scholarships, she is currently conducting research through the Blönduós Academic Center in ABSTRACT: The concepts and practices surrounding sustainability are increasingly the focus of many new post-secondary and graduate education programs. However, the term sustainability refers to a complex mixture of disciplines, methods, contexts, and topics. This complexity is often confusing and can create barriers to learning. Comprehensive understanding of sustainability issues requires that students engage in an active learning process, focusing on context and perspective. Our "Sustainability Stew" curriculum, designed by doctoral students in various fields related to sustainability, is intended to guide sustainability education while offering the freedom to explore complex issues in an active, project-based learning environment. In this paper, we provide background and details for the design of the Sustainability Stew Guide and report results from student surveys on the curriculum itself from one undergraduate sociology course at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (n=37), one community college course at Delaware Technical and Community College (n=11), and one graduate-level research group at the University of Delaware (n=7). Student survey results and instructor reports suggest that the Sustainability Stew curriculum is an effective and innovative approach to sustainability education. Finally, we offer analysis and future directions for similar post-secondary sustainability education. Our objective is to offer a novel exercise to aid educators in teaching and discussing the concepts of sustainability in a way that encourages critical, multi-disciplinary engagement. |
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