Culturally and Ecologically Relevant Teaching: Forming Strong Educational Bonds With Nature and Community
Description:
Today’s world is filled with great environmental and social challenges. How can educators help students to become truly empowered to understand and connect with sustainability, social justice, and culture? Participants will be able to incorporate practices into the teaching of elementary and secondary students that moves any curriculum towards the skills that are necessary in the 21st Century.
| Date(s): |
March 16, 2013
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| Schedule: |
9:00 – 2:00
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| Location: |
Barnard Hall, CCSU
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| Instructor: |
Drs. Joss French & Kurt Love
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| Fee: |
$125
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| Participants: |
This workshop is open for educators, parents and community members. Limited to 30 participants.
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| Contact Hours: |
5 |
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Instructor James Joss French is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Central Connecticut State University. Dr. French has taught as an elementary public school teacher, volunteered as a primary teacher trainer in Peace Corps Namibia and received his Ph.D. in Multicultural Education, Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Connecticut. His scholarship focuses on Eco-Social Justice teacher education within school and community contexts. In addition to his work as grant co-director and partnership coordinator for an Environmental Science Magnet School, contributions to local and university sustainability research and diversity initiatives include multiple community engagement events. Currently, he is coauthoring a book titled, Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation.
Instructor Kurt Love is an assistant professor at Central Connecticut State University in the Teacher Education Department. His research and teaching practice focus on ecojustice pedagogy, and community-based praxes. His interest is working directly with teachers in their classroom on building teaching practices that use place-based contexts and investigations of cultural and ecological intersections. Dr. Love provides support and professional development for teachers at the Environmental Sciences Magnet School at Mary M. Hooker in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Love also teaches courses at the Sustainable Farm School of Connecticut.
