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Teaching For Transformation: (Re)Designing Sustainability Courses Based On Ecological Principles, Heather Burns
Teaching For Transformation: (Re)Designing Sustainability Courses Based On Ecological Principles, Heather Burns
Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations
If educators are to effectively prepare learners with the knowledge, skills, and values they will need for creating more sustainable places and communities, a transition must be made from transmissive teaching models to transformative learning processes. But how can courses be designed or redesigned so that they create opportunities for transformational sustainability learning, and how can ecological principles guide this process? The Burns model of sustainability pedagogy provides a practical model for course design that is rooted in ecological principles. The Burns model is comprised of five key dimensions: (1)Content; (2)Perspectives; (3)Process; (4)Context; and (5)Design and seeks to: (1) increase …
Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance
Tracking The Use Of Leed® In Facilities For Higher Education, Shannon M. Chance
Shannon M. Chance
America’s 4391 institutions of higher learning own roughly 240,000 buildings according to The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2009) and the United States Green Building Council [USGBC] (n.d.). Most of these buildings’ designs reflect a time when energy was cheap and material abundant. Throughout the past century, building designs frequently ignored their surroundings, usurped energy at appalling rates, and did little to teach inhabitants respect for the environment (Fox, 2007; McDonough & Braungart 2002; Orr, 2007). As our colleges renovate and expand their facilities today, however, their activities reflect a decided shift in values. Over the past few …
Sustainable Event Management Of Music Festivals: An Event Organizer Perspective, Stephanie L. Stettler
Sustainable Event Management Of Music Festivals: An Event Organizer Perspective, Stephanie L. Stettler
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Sustainably managed music festivals have significant value and can provide a multitude of benefits to a healthy, sustainable and desirable society if their negative impacts are mitigated and positive impacts cultivated. To reach this great potential, sustainable event management of music festivals must become widely adopted and expanded as common practice. To drive this improvement of sustainable event management, there is a need to first understand the barriers and success factors event organizers face moving their music festivals toward sustainability. This study uses a research design of mixed quantitative-qualitative methods: a survey of thirty diverse music festival organizers across the …