Today marks my first full week in New Zealand! I’m currently sitting in my host family’s kitchen drinking a cup of tea (a New Zealand custom that I partake in about six times a day now) staring out the window to my left that looks out onto a small but busy harbor. Lyttelton is a neighborhood of […]
Research in New Zealand
I received funding to do research in New Zealand in the fall of 2016. A self-motivated trip, these posts document my experiences traveling solo and doing research in a foreign country.
Introduction and Updates
Last semester I received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant from my school’s Environmental Studies department. The grant aims to support students to pursue internationally based situated environmental research projects. My proposal is to study place-based environmental education in New Zealand, which has a very progressive education system. Place-based education, in my view, aims to combine […]