Notes from the Great Transition
Training people to help create communities that are better suited to a changing environment is important work—but quite a challenge when it’s not at all clear what that future will look like.
Tagged: Teaching
Broadcasting the Wisconsin Idea: A Local History
The establishment of Station 9XM and experimental educational broadcasting is part of a larger story of radio and The Wisconsin Idea.
Planning for a Diverse and Inclusive Classroom
Three resources to kick-start your planning for teaching diverse groups of students.
Blueprints for the Semester: Revisiting How to Plan Environmental Pedagogy
As the spring semester approaches, we revisit suggestions for how to conduct careful lesson planning around environmental issues.
Planning Environmental Pedagogy: A How-To
Careful lesson planning enables students to create their own solutions to today’s environmental challenges.
Edgy Stuff: September 2015 Recommendations
September 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Edgy Stuff: July 2015 Recommendations
July 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Rewilding and Reptiles: A Conversation With Naturalist Harry Greene
World-renowned herpetologist and naturalist Harry Greene discusses humanity’s “deep history” with snakes, empathy and embodiment in animal research, Pleistocene rewilding, natural history in education, and more.
Why Our Students Should Debate Climate Change
Teaching the history of science in an age of climate denialism produces surprising questions about nature, knowledge, and democracy.
Our Climatic Fate? Oreskes and Conway’s “Collapse of Western Civilization”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s tale of our catastrophic future is a provocative hybrid of scholarship and science fiction that’s great for the classroom.
