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Course Design Projects
Collaborative teams formed in the latter half of the course around project ideas of shared interest. We had engaged in some prior design work in the first half of the class. Using a bottom-up nomination and selection process, four design projects formed.
The project goal was to explore and work towards developing an educational ‘otherwise’ or resource in direct support of environmental or climate justice.
Project: How might our plant-soil entanglements support BIPOC histories and futures?
Project: How might our plant-soil entanglements support BIPOC histories and futures?
by Kathleen Arada, Madeleine Colvin, Christina Guevara, Rae Jing Han, Lindsey Kaiser; Art by Rae Jing Han
Design Focus: A collection of garden-based and justice-focused questions, resources, and practices for individuals, families, and educators.
Design Product: A resource collection web site
Project: Building Relationships with Land and Others: Exploring Multi-Species Entanglements and Multiple Ways of Knowing
Project: Building Relationships with Land and Others: Exploring Multi-Species Entanglements and Multiple Ways of Knowing
by Stacey Alfonso, Meg Narwold, Christian Foster & Curtis Ludwig
Design Focus: A professional learning series for teachers
Design Product: A conceptualization and storyline for the series focused on:
unlearning a reductive focus on Euro-Western ways of knowing
how to develop educator partnerships with Indigneous communities
how to understand multiple dimensions of Indigenous sovereignty in relation to public schooling
Project: Sixth Grade Climate Change Curriculum Adaptation Unit
Project: Sixth Grade Climate Change Curriculum Adaptation Unit
by Anastasia Sanchez, Kelsey Smith & Molly Shea
Design Focus: Curriculum adaptation
Design Product: A conceptualized approach on how to adapt the commercial curriculum unit to center Indigenous worldview, socio-ecological caring, and multispecies responsibilities.
Social Focus Driving Question: How are Indigenous communities responding to the challenges resulting from a changing climate? Students explore cultural resilience and resurgence of Indigenous communities.
Project: Holding the rhythms of seasonality in early childhood education
Project: Holding the rhythms of seasonality in early childhood education
by Shayla Chatto, Jordan Sherry-Wagner, Brett Baldauf & Jessica Flaherty
Design Focus: Developing an educational otherwise
Design Product: A conceptualized approach that resists invasive models of education and builds an educational approach centered on seasonal dynamics of multispecies systems. The approach centers on early learning, connection to family contexts, and community learning events.
Intergenerational groups explore the question: How are you in conversation with more-than-human others in a specific place—as a way learn about the seasons and develop relations to place?
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