Tag: Teaching
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A Multispecies Approach to Learning from Invasive Plants
in EssaysIn the thick of Greenbelt National Park, students in Jordan Lea Johnson’s feminist environmental studies class learn from invasive plants. A multispecies pedagogy prompts reflection on ecological narratives of invasion and mastery.
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Faculty Favorites: Books That Go Beyond the Classroom
in ChecklistsSix scholars from campuses across the country recommend new environmental books about the blue humanities, environmental justice, the histories of bikes and blockades, and more.
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Faculty Favorites: Books for a Return to Campus
in ChecklistsSeven scholars from a variety of fields recommend new books and classics to read this fall, with topics ranging from Indigenous resistance and Afrofuturism to Irish coastal history and nineteenth-century surfing.
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A Syllabus for Plantation Worlds
in ExhibitsDrawing from postcolonial, Caribbean, Black, and Indigenous Studies, Sophie Sapp Moore and Aida Arosoaie curate a reading list that highlights the complex dynamics of plantation worlds, past and present. Their syllabus is the perfect end to our series on the Plantationocene.
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Faculty Favorites: Reading Through the Pandemic
in ChecklistsSix scholars recommend books and essays they’re teaching this fall to navigate the pandemics of coronavirus and racial injustice.
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The Future of Landscape Architecture is TV
in EssaysInspired by TV as a medium, Marc Miller’s course in landscape architecture has students make environmental fiction about the future rather than design for the present.
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The Future of Animal Studies: A Conversation with Lori Gruen
in PodcastsAcclaimed animal studies scholar Lori Gruen takes stock of the field and discusses her new collection, Critical Terms for Animal Studies.
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Crisis and Creativity in Environmental Pedagogy
in EssaysGiven the often-debilitating realities of environmental issues, how can teachers build an environmental pedagogy that inspires creative change?
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Embracing Identity in the Environmental Classroom
in EssaysWe form attachments to the places around us, and they shape our sense of who we are. An educator uses that environmental identity to spark action.
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The Pleasures of Teaching Plastic
in FieldnotesPlastic shapes us even as it contributes to our destruction. A performance studies scholar shares her creative approach to teaching about plastic and identity in an unavoidably plastic world.