ED44A:
Interdisciplinary Teaching and Sustainability Il

Submit an Abstract to this Session



Session ID#: 35528

Session Description:
Living sustainability is a process that humanity is still debating and trying to define. Philosophies, pedagogies, and curricula of sustainability education are not settled but are broadly conceived as interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary. The purpose of this session is to provide a venue for exploring perspectives and pedagogies for including sustainability in geoscience instruction that arise from conversations among the geosciences and other disciplines within the sciences and beyond. Presentations are invited from geoscience educators who can communicate their vision of sustainability and show how it’s reflected in their teaching; geoscientists who engage in informal education or work in the public sphere who have developed a vision of sustainability and can show how it guides their work; and educators in non-geoscience fields who draw inspiration or knowledge from Earth systems to inform their teaching.
Primary Convener:  Ellen P Metzger, San Jose State University, Geology/Science Education, San Jose, CA, United States
Conveners:  Randall R Curren, University of Rochester, Philosophy, Rochester, NY, United States and David Blockstein, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC, United States
Chairs:  Ellen P Metzger, San Jose State University, Geology/Science Education, San Jose, CA, United States and Randall R Curren, University of Rochester, Philosophy, Rochester, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ellen P Metzger, San Jose State University, Geology/Science Education, San Jose, CA, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0830 Teacher training [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth for a Sustainable Future (Invited) (216131)
Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States and Leadership Team of InTeGrate STEP Center for the Geosciences
An Interdisciplinary Education of Sustainability, Energy and Green Economics (207220)
Monika V Sikand, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Union City, NJ, United States, Claudio Mazzatenta, CUNY Bronx Community College, Department of Biology, Bronx, NY, United States, Keith Wong, CUNY Bronx Community College, Department of Chemistry, Bronx, NY, United States and Aaron Socha, Queens University of Charlotte, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Charlotte, NC, United States
Can role-play with interactive simulations enhance climate change knowledge, affect and intent to act? (270361)
Juliette N Rooney-varga, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, John Sterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Dynamics Group, Cambridge, MA, United States, Eduardo Pedro Fracassi, Instituto Tecnológico Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Travis Franck, Climate Interactive, Washington, United States, Florian Kapmeier, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany, Victoria Kurker, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Climate Change Initiative, Lowell, MA, United States, Andrew Jones, Climate Interactive, Washington, DC, United States and Kenneth Rath, Sage Fox Consulting Group, Amherst, United States
Finding ways to grow skills, knowledge, and voice in the next generation of interdisciplinary sustainability scientists (278289)
Samuel G. Roy, University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, Simone Pereira de Souza, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Bridie McGreavy, Sen. George J. Mitchell Center, Orono, ME, United States, Kevin Gardner, University of New Hampshire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, David Hart, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Bristol, United Kingdom
EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY INSTRUCTION ACROSS CONTENT AREAS: BEST CLASSROOM PRACTICES FROM INFORMAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (216615)
Renee M Clary1, Ryan M. Walker1 and Cathy Wissehr2, (1)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (2)University of Arkansas, Curriculum and Instruction, Fayetteville, AR, United States

See more of: Education