Tackling Climate Change Through Critical, Contemplative, and Transformative Experiential Teaching and Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel is formed of a faculty member and a group of graduate students who joined together in a graduate course on Global Climate Change and Education in a university to disrupt the hierarchical thinking about humanity and nature, and form a learning community to take actions that connect global climate change challenges with local issues such as rampant capitalist greed attempting to destroy nature right on their campus. The panel is featured by faculty and student voices; more importantly, what the students took up as their own way to connect with nature and act by giving voices to a forest that is in danger of being cut down. Students’ research as a result of the course are also presented.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Holistic Education

Chair

• Jing Lin, University of Maryland

Papers

• Incorporating Critical, Contemplative, and Transformative Learning Into a Graduate Course Tackling Environmental Destruction and Climate Change - Jing Lin, University of Maryland

• Terps in Resilience: Integrating Participatory Action and Civic Participation Into Higher Education to Combat Environmental Destruction - Joey Haavik, University of Maryland

• Up the Game! Current Efforts, Challenges, and Potentials to Cultivate an Ecological Civilization Through Games - Shue-kei Joanna Mok, University of Maryland

• A River Runs Through Me: Becoming One With Nature - Virginia Gomes, University of Maryland

• Establishing Contact With Nature Through an Environmental Education Class: Personal Experience as a Visiting Student - Anna Grigoryeva, University of Maryland