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Exploring the Interplay: STEM Education, Sustainability Contexts, and Educator Competence in Systems Thinking
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-07)
Currently, STEM education and Education for Sustainability (EfS) are viewed as disconnected educational approaches in Pennsylvania classrooms. While both offer promising outcomes and have overlapping goals, research shows ...
Perceptions of Environmental Justice in an Adult-Education Program
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-05)
Pellow’s (2018) four pillars of Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) provided a framework to address environmental justice challenges in this study of the San Diego Urban Sustainability Coalition’s (SDUSC) Climate Ambassador ...
Sustainability and Community Colleges: It’s More Than Just Recycling
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2023-12)
The purpose of this study was to examine sustainability policies and practices at community
colleges. A social-constructivist worldview guided my exploratory qualitative study that tar geted nine sustainability professionals ...
Nursing Sustainability Literacy
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2023-08-30)
Complexity theory provides a framework for understanding that the dimensions of sustainability and the social determinants of health (SDH) are complex adaptive systems (CAS), nested together in dynamic interaction. This ...
Participants' Perceptions of the Ho-Chunk Nation Indigenous Arts and Sciences Institute
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2021-12)
Native American culture or Indigenous ways of knowing and learning have been historically underrepresented in US public school classrooms. In this study, I claim that educators should participate in culturally influenced ...
FARMERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND LAND ETHIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CURRICULA
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2021-12)
This was a qualitative study of discourses and practices reported by a sample (n = 45) of self identified sustainable farmers in central Wisconsin. I collected survey data, conducted farm visits, interviews, and analyzed ...
Perception, Place, & Perspective: Teaching Sustainability Through Literature
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)
This study was a multi-phase research project that began by examining the perspectives of a sample of English-Language Arts (ELA) teachers’ self-reported identities as educators for sustainability and their knowledge of ...
Love-Based Leadership for Sustainability: Leveraging Love-Based Leadership, Systems Theory & Social Dimensions of Behavioral Economics
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)
In this dissertation, I lay the groundwork for the definition, application, measurement, and evolution of a framework for love-based leadership for sustainability (LBLS) in three separate manuscripts. In Manuscript I, I ...
Schoobio: A Sustainability Curriculum to Increase Biocultural Diversity on School Grounds
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-12)
I developed a new global curriculum, Schoobio, in which middle and high school students become citizen scientists and change agents as they engage in transdisciplinary activities culminating in their advocacy for biocultural ...
Information Architecture: Concepts for an Eco-Language of Mind, Matter, & Media
(University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, School of Education, 2020-12-12)
Information is complex, multi-dimensional, interdisciplinary, and systemic. Language systems can be perceptually fragmented, negatively impacting environmental performance within critical resource management systems including ...