Place-based education has been an interest of mine for a while now, but recently I have felt like I’ve been aimlessly swimming around in the same pool of water with no exchange of ideas. Recently I met with Greg Smith, Jessica Kleiss, and Jim Proctor to throw around ideas for possible thesis research this summer […]
Māori Musings
I’ve had a few thoughts about focusing my concentration more since my last post. I have plans to try to get back to New Zealand this summer to do more research, so I’ve been thinking of ways to expand my experiences from the fall, and perhaps move forward with research for my thesis. The only […]
Scientific literacy and the Role of Science in ENVS
What is scientific literacy? What should we learn about science, and who should decide? These are some of the questions we have been dealing with in ED 455: Science Education in the 21st Century for the past few weeks, and this week in Environmental Theory we talked about science and the role it should and […]
One, Two, Infitinity
This week was a shout out to the 2014 Environmental Studies Symposium: We the Anthropos. In addition to focusing on the Anthropocene, we examined the different views of reality in the Anthropocene. Many of these views had to do with what our view of nature is: is it wild and untouched or is it tame […]
Place and Translocal Solidarities
This past week, we focused on notions of place, a big topic of interest for me, considering my concentration in place-based education. After all, to understand place-based education first we must understand place — what’s important, where it is, and how it’s changed over time. We struggled with the ideas of nature/culture, local/global, and stasis/change, […]
Promoting tolerance – teaching Maori culture in schools – NewsWire.co.nz
Maori children were beaten once for speaking their own language, but these days te reo may be a way forward. GRANT ELLEN talks to Lisa Reweti about her work with Wellington primary school children: FOR Lisa Reweti (left), the impetus to promote Maori culture started when she was at school. She remembers being angry that teachers were not able to […]