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Ecopedagogy, Religion, and Place-Based Civic Engagement
Proposal abstract :
The central question of the project is: how best to engage students in an intersectional ecopedagogical approach with hands-on experiences that connects local campus sustainability initiatives and broader urban environmental justice issues? In practicum projects students connect theory and praxis with the campus Center for Sustainability and a community partner, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance in practicums at an organic garden for women felons at a transitional center, and also at an on-campus wellness and meditation garden. A key component of this partnership involves a series of horticultural therapy workshops by Trellis staff, along with ecopedagogy workshops by scholars in the fields of theology and religious studies to build spaces for continued work on campus and in the community.
Learning Abstract :
The central question of the project is: how best to engage students in an intersectional ecopedagogical approach with hands-on experiences that connects local campus sustainability initiatives and broader urban environmental justice issues? In practicum projects students connect theory and praxis with the campus Center for Sustainability and a community partner, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance in practicums at an organic garden for women felons at a transitional center, and also at an on-campus wellness and meditation garden. A key component of this partnership involves a series of horticultural therapy workshops by Trellis staff, along with ecopedagogy workshops by scholars in the fields of theology and religious studies to build spaces for continued work on campus and in the community.
The central question of the project is: how best to engage students in an intersectional ecopedagogical approach with hands-on experiences that connects local campus sustainability initiatives and broader urban environmental justice issues? In practicum projects students connect theory and praxis with the campus Center for Sustainability and a community partner, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance in practicums at an organic garden for women felons at a transitional center, and also at an on-campus wellness and meditation garden. A key component of this partnership involves a series of horticultural therapy workshops by Trellis staff, along with ecopedagogy workshops by scholars in the fields of theology and religious studies to build spaces for continued work on campus and in the community.
Learning Abstract :
The central question of the project is: how best to engage students in an intersectional ecopedagogical approach with hands-on experiences that connects local campus sustainability initiatives and broader urban environmental justice issues? In practicum projects students connect theory and praxis with the campus Center for Sustainability and a community partner, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance in practicums at an organic garden for women felons at a transitional center, and also at an on-campus wellness and meditation garden. A key component of this partnership involves a series of horticultural therapy workshops by Trellis staff, along with ecopedagogy workshops by scholars in the fields of theology and religious studies to build spaces for continued work on campus and in the community.