Outcomes
Some of the outcomes of the first SEI include:
- Building and strengthening the Sustainability Education network across the UBC-Vancouver campus and beyond
- Developing the awesome promo video about sustainability education in BC, highlighting the SEI – thank you to Sean Devlin, filmmaker & goBEYOND
- Co-presenting with BCIT at the October 2009, Gaining Ground: Resilient Cities conference in the shoulder session on Transformative Learning: Building Resilient Communities through Sustainability Education. The session was entitled “Building Institutional Capacity for Sustainability Education.”
- Developing and implementing participant projects from their Sustainability Education Plans (SEP)
| Participants | Units represented | Sustainability Education Project | |
| Adams, Tegan | Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Van Dusen Gardens, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Climate Justice Project, Farm Folk City folk, Friends of the UBC Farm (ish), Himalayan Nature Society | Himalayan Nature Society – Integrating Organic Gardening into Elementary School Curriculum. A Case Study in Himachal Pradesh, India. | |
| Baynham, Maggie | goBEYOND Project, BC Campus Climate Network, School of Community and Regional Planning, Land and Food Systems Grad | goBEYOND’s Sustainability Education Across the Province short course. | |
| Willock, Angela | Common Energy, GoBEYOND, Residence Sustainability Coordinators, Will be part of Global Resource Systems Program in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems Sept. 09, UBC farm volunteer | ||
| Berndt, Annette | Technology and Society, Appropriate Tech in International Development, Technical Communication (Engineering) | Integrating Sustainability Learning Initiatives into a Standardized Technical Communication Course for Engineering Students | |
| Dharamsi, Shafik | Department of Family Practice; School of Population & Public Health; UBC Centre for International Health | Establishing a Sustainable Platform for Ethical International Engagement and Service-Learning Practices | |
| Whiteman, Matt | Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, Centre for International Health, College of Health Disciplines | ||
| Diner, Nadine | Education and Outreach Coordinator, UBC Botanical Garden (UBC Land and Food) | UBC Botanical Garden | |
| Ellis, Naoko | Chemical & Biological Engineering, Clean Energy Research Centre, Biodiesel Project | Sustainability in Chemical Engineering | |
| Gardiner, Margaret | First Nations Languages Program | Team Building in the First Nations Languages Program | |
| Harlap, Yael | Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (global citizenship in teaching and learning), Centre for Intercultural Communication, East Van Communal Housing Network, International Centre for Art and Social Change (SFU & Judith Marcuse Projects) | Theatre of the Oppressed | |
| Hendren, Elizabeth | Center for International Health, Global Health Initiative, Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund | Environmental sustainability- Spiti Valley in India | |
| Koot, Cathy | Alex Fraser Research Forest. Williams Lake (Faculty of Forestry) | The Dirt on Dead Wood: A Student-led Interpretive Tour of the Values of Dead Trees (for Faculty of Forestry Fall Field School at the Alex Fraser Research Forest) | |
| Morton, Charlene | Music Education, Teacher Education, Social Issues in Education, Environmental Sustainabilty and Social Reponsibility (Elementary School) Cohort, Faculty of Education (Department of Curriuclum and Pedagogy) | 1. Windhorse Farm and the NS Environmental Network 2. Dalhousie University’s New Double Major Programs in Environments, Sustainability, and Society |
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| Much, Jocelyn | EDCP, Science Education | BC Biology 11 curriculum | |
| Paterson, Carla | History Department and Faculty of Applied Science | Enhancing sustainability in Applied Science 261/2 and History 104 | |
| Rathbun, Leah | Faculty of Forestry | CONFOR | |
| Valley, Will | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Urban Agricultural Course | |
| Verwood, Roselynn | Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (Communities of Practice – Course Design, Facilitation, Portfolio); Department of Educational Studies; Native Education College | Culturally Relevant Assessment in FCC 240: Development of an Assessment Model using the Medicine Wheel |