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Institutional Fragility: Structures of Dominance in American Higher Educational Institutions Inhibiting Sustainable Education
(Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021-06-28)Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have become a requisite place to educate future change agents towards solving urgent sustainability issues facing society, and HEIs have responded to this imperative. As Vincent et ... -
Institutional Fragility: Structures of Dominance in American Higher Educational Institutions Inhibiting Sustainable Education
(Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021-06-28)Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have become a requisite place to educate future change agents towards solving urgent sustainability issues facing society, and HEIs have responded to this imperative. As Vincent et ... -
Critical Food Pedagogy and Sustainable Development
(Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education, Springer Nature, 2018-10-25)Food pedagogy is the fusion of food-related content and experiential process as one co-occurrence. Coupled with the critique of, and solutions to food related issues, society forms power relations that serve as the ... -
Special Issue: Transformative Sustainability Education
(Journal of Transformative Education, 2018-09-17)In a time of integration and convergence rather than reductionism and specialization, we invite you to read this special issue on transformative sustainability education. This collection of articles examines the ... -
Riverspeaking: Transformative Learning within a Relational Ontology
(2016)The co-authors perturb the modernist ontology of rationalism, cognitivism, progressivism, and the view of the self as autonomous that is predominant in current transformative learning theory. Entering into a co-learning ... -
Window of Opportunity: Creating a Hopeful Future Following the COVID-19 Disaster
(Synergetic Approach to the Design of Living Space of Personality Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2021-04-27)The COVID-19 disaster has resulted in feelings of isolation and trauma, as well as hope for the future. Two international studies were conducted in 2020 to measure the impacts of gender equity, access to health care, and ... -
Citizen Action and Environmental Law in the U.S.
(America House Kyiv, 2021-06-08)Did you know that rivers in the United States used to catch on fire as a result of pollution? Thanks to the work of passionate eco-activists and researchers across generations, we now know the how’s and why’s of cause, ... -
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 ... -
Defying Gravity: An Affective Photovoice Lens on Transformative Sustainability Learning
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-05)The purpose of this study was to understand the learning experiences and the role of affect for students in a transformative sustainability education doctoral program. My research questions reflected the purpose of this ... -
Natural Capital’s Role in Sustainable Development
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Sustainability Literacy Competencies in Coursework for Preservice Teacher Preparation
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-08)The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of four categories of sustainability literacy competencies; sustainability knowledge; systems thinking; social justice; and futures thinking, throughout coursework ... -
A Data-Driven Triple-Bottom-Line Sustainable Balanced-Reporting Framework for Small Municipalities
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-12)This study focused on cities in the United States with a population maximum of 75,000. The first phase consisted of a qualitative study of current reporting frameworks to identify the current landscape of sustainability ... -
Ojibwe culture & knowledge of climate change in fourth-grade curricula in Wisconsin public elementary schools
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-08)The first purpose of this study was to provide recommendations for educators to update their fourth-grade social-studies and science curricula by including more accurate and thorough representation of Ojibwe knowledge ... -
Nature-Deficit Disorder: How Art and Nature Help Children Focus and Succeed in School
(Psychological Coordinates of Personality Development: Realities and Perspectives, 3rd All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Poltava, Ukraine, 2018-02)Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of being alienated from nature, including attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. This disorder was first named by Richard Louv, whose ... -
Culinary Sustainability Education: A Culinary Education as Sustainability
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-05)Critics have observed that modern culinary education still adheres to the traditions that emerged during the feudal era as well as the modernist values of power, hierarchy, reductionism, and dualist worldviews. More ... -
School Grounds for Learning: Tying Curriculum to the Outdoors
(Project Central, 2018-11-29)This presentation was given to a graduate lab class at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Kitakyushu, Japan, in November 2018, at the invitation of Dr. Keitaro Ito, colleague and friend of the author. The students were ... -
“Hey, That’s My Sandwich!”: Food Waste Recovery, Environmental Stewardship, and School Curriculum
(Solid Waste Association of North America, 2019-02-26)Over 3.5 years, more than 20 schools in the Kansas City, Missouri, region collected nearly a half ton of food and paper waste from their cafeterias for composting. This presentation, delivered at SWANA’s (a waste management ... -
Forestry Programs in the U.S. and Current Changes in Forestry Management
(Project Central, 2019-04-25)Forests hold a special place for most Belarusians as sources of food, fuel, material products, and respite from everyday life. This presentation, given in April 2019 to a class in forestry at the Belarusian State Technological ... -
Greening Our Minds: Benefits of Nature for Health and Creativity
(Project Central, 2019-04-16)This presentation was delivered to psychology classes at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University and V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University in Kyiv and Poltava, Ukraine, in April 2019. The presentation discusses the ...
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