Seeking to Engage: re-Placing Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus to Help Address Environmental Crisis
Simon Fraser University, from the time of its opening in the 1960s, has striven to be a modernist and progressive educational institution. These characteristics are reflected in the architectural designs of its campuses, its epistemological orientations and offerings, and its policies. The universit...
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ftsimonfrazerudp:oai:ojs.journals.lib.sfu.ca:article/1216 2024-09-15T18:06:36+00:00 Seeking to Engage: re-Placing Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus to Help Address Environmental Crisis Maser, Michael 2020-08-19 application/pdf https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/sfuer/article/view/1216 eng eng SFU Education Graduate Student Association and the SFU Faculty of Education https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/sfuer/article/view/1216/1766 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/sfuer/article/view/1216 Copyright (c) 2020 Michael Maser http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 SFU Educational Review; Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020); 72-86 1916-050X environmental crisis sustainability post-secondary education place-based education First Nations education modernism info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftsimonfrazerudp 2024-07-31T03:03:06Z Simon Fraser University, from the time of its opening in the 1960s, has striven to be a modernist and progressive educational institution. These characteristics are reflected in the architectural designs of its campuses, its epistemological orientations and offerings, and its policies. The university also states an ambition to be "Canada's most engaged university" on its website (sfu.ca/about.html). It is in considering this last point that this paper questions and considers SFU's 'engagement' in the context of the emerging environmental crisis. In particular, this paper focuses attention on the Burnaby Mountain campus and considers its place - geographically, architecturally, and culturally, and how these considerations of place intertwine and contribute or detract from a sense of engagement. Overall, this author posits that Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus is critically alienated from the in-situ forest that surrounds it, through character and gesture, and this is most unfortunate given a stated need by experts and educators to deepen engagement with natural environments in this time of crisis. Insights from place-based education identify that in-situ ecological knowledge, and insights arising from First Nations peoples, can help to grow new knowledge and awareness, deepen resiliency, and affect positive cultural change. The author suggests that Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus is an appropriate location to grow such a place-based education program and deepen its engagement in new, valuable ways. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SFU Library Digital Publishing (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) |
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Simon Fraser University, from the time of its opening in the 1960s, has striven to be a modernist and progressive educational institution. These characteristics are reflected in the architectural designs of its campuses, its epistemological orientations and offerings, and its policies. The university also states an ambition to be "Canada's most engaged university" on its website (sfu.ca/about.html). It is in considering this last point that this paper questions and considers SFU's 'engagement' in the context of the emerging environmental crisis. In particular, this paper focuses attention on the Burnaby Mountain campus and considers its place - geographically, architecturally, and culturally, and how these considerations of place intertwine and contribute or detract from a sense of engagement. Overall, this author posits that Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus is critically alienated from the in-situ forest that surrounds it, through character and gesture, and this is most unfortunate given a stated need by experts and educators to deepen engagement with natural environments in this time of crisis. Insights from place-based education identify that in-situ ecological knowledge, and insights arising from First Nations peoples, can help to grow new knowledge and awareness, deepen resiliency, and affect positive cultural change. The author suggests that Simon Fraser's Burnaby Mountain campus is an appropriate location to grow such a place-based education program and deepen its engagement in new, valuable ways. |
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Seeking to Engage: re-Placing Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus to Help Address Environmental Crisis |
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Seeking to Engage: re-Placing Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus to Help Address Environmental Crisis |
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Seeking to Engage: re-Placing Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Mountain Campus to Help Address Environmental Crisis |
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seeking to engage: re-placing simon fraser university’s burnaby mountain campus to help address environmental crisis |
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SFU Education Graduate Student Association and the SFU Faculty of Education |
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SFU Educational Review; Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020); 72-86 1916-050X |
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