Browsing Doctor of Education in Educational Sustainability by Title
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Global Citizenship Education in Rural Wisconsin Schools: Exploring Current Landscape & Opportunities For Expansion
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2023-12)In this study I sought to explore the current state of global citizenship education in rural Wisconsin schools, including perceived benefits, barriers, successes, supports, and visions for the future, as well as opportunities ... -
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 ... -
Growing Relational Well-being
(2020-05)This concept poster represents the journey through my first year of the Ed.D. in Educational Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. This concept poster demonstrates my history in organizational ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Integrating Biodiversity into Urban School Grounds through Transdisciplinary Curriculum Design
(7th International Conference of the Network URBIO – Urban Biodiversity & Design, Leipzig, Germany, 2022-11-28)As a teaching ecologist and doctoral candidate in Educational Sustainability, I work with science teachers who want to use place-based learning in their classes. Place-based learning ties ecological concepts to “real world” ... -
Integration of Sustainability Education into Teacher Professional Learning: A Case Study
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-01)With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand ... -
Learning about the Environment through Art
(Art Congress, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2020-04)Art is an invaluable means of expression and can also be a learning tool. This presentation introduces art as a way to include all learning styles, bring art into classrooms that may have experienced reduced art funding, ... -
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 ... -
Mindfulness in Sustainability Education
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-06)This study was about a university course, Mindfulness & Sustainability (GC495), that I designed, instructed, and assessed. Twenty-one students and I went on a mindful learning journey; together we cultivated a community ... -
Mindsets on Closures and Consolidations: Perceptions of Schooling in Rural Communities
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)In this study, I examined selected rural communities in Wisconsin that had experienced a school closure or had a referendum that could have resulted in the closure of a local school. My aim was to analyze data on participants’ ... -
My Life - My Story - My First Year as a Doctoral Student
(2020-06)This document is my first-year concept poster within a sustainability context. It contains a Learning-Journey Timeline describing who I am and what I have accomplished thus far in the program, using a timeline that depicts ... -
Natural Capital’s Role in Sustainable Development
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Open Books, Open Minds, Open Hearts: School Librarians' Perceptions of Inclusive Children's Literature
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-05)The purpose of this cross-sectional quantitative survey study was to learn Wisconsin school librarians’ perceptions of inclusive children’s literature and determine the presence of any value conflict. I used exploratory ...