Webinar: Collaborative Workshop on a Place-Based Model for Sustainability Across the Curriculum
The session presents and and give participants opportunities to collaborate on creating sustainability curriculum for undergraduates across the disciplines. Participants will be introduced to frameworks for integrating and assessing social, economic and/or environmental sustainability in new or existing courses. It
- introduces the newest iteration of the tool of Key Competencies and how it can be integrated into higher education, including providing suggestions for resources for its integration into a range of academic disciplines.
- provides examples of a culturally place-based sustainability education from Hawaii, discussing ways in which sense of place, hands-on experiences, and context-specific knowledge enhance student learning and students’ sense of mastery of sustainability competencies.
The integration of cultural & place-based curricula into the sustainability across the curriculum model is innovative, effective and meaningful. It is inspired by an ʻāina-based epistemology and practice developed over centuries by the peoples of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific and recently described and refined by Native Hawaiian scholars..
Strengthened by the key concept methodology and an opportunity to work in interdisciplinary groups (1-hour break-out session) to dream up course curricula or assignments, the participants will leave the session with a new network, ideas, and inspiration to create or improve their own sustainability curriculum.
Presenters
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Ulla Hasager, Director of Civic Engagement for the College of Social Sciences, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa Ulla Hasager is the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Social Sciences Director of Civic Engagement and Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean. She leads engaged curriculum creation and professional and program development across communities, institutions and disciplines. For example, she leads the innovative Mālama I Nā Ahupuaʻa service-learning program, which is internationally recognized as a model for sustainability education. She coordinates SENCER Hawaiʻi (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) and is co-director of the national SENCER Center for Innovation West. |
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Aya Kimura, Professor of Sociology, Director of the University of Hawaii Center on Sustainability Across the Curriculum, University of Hawaii at Manoa Aya H. Kimura is a Professor of Sociology, Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean, and Director of the University of Hawaiʻi Center on Sustainability Across the Curriculum. She has an MA in Environmental Studies (Yale) and a PhD in Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Her books include Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (Duke University Press: recipient of the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science) and Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell University Press: recipient of the Outstanding Scholarly Award from the Rural Sociological Society). |
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Krista Hiser, Kapiʻolani Community College Professor and Director of the Sustainability Education Accreditation Commission for the National Sustainability Society, Kapiʻolani Community College, University of Hawaii System Krista Hiser, PhD, is a Professor at Kapiʻolani Community College and Director of the Sustainability Education Accreditation Commission for the National Sustainability Society. She has served as the Senior Advisor for Sustainability Education at the Global Council for Science and the Environment and established the University of Hawaiʻi System Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum. She is also the host of AASHE’s Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club, and teaches writing and literature with an emphasis on sustainability and climate change education. Her doctoral degree is in Educational Administration from UH Mānoa. |
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Kamakana Aquino, Native Hawaiian Coordinator, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili, College of Social Sciences (UHM), University of Hawaii at Manoa Kamakanaokealoha M. Aquino is from Waimānalo, O‘ahu, and is the Native Hawaiian Coordinator for Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: the CSS Native Hawaiian Initiative, UH Mānoa. He coordinates and supports Hawaiian-centered programs in teaching, learning, service and scholarship, including the College’s Nā Koʻokoʻo: Hawaiian Leadership Program for students and Hulihia: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Social Sciences Curriculum Program for College faculty. |