Event Title
Nurturing Environmental Literacy: Higher Education and the Environmental Crisis
Location
Diamond 342
Start Date
30-4-2015 10:30 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 11:55 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
The environmental crisis will affect all people, career paths, and academic disciplines. Acknowledging this, does higher education have an obligation to educate all students for environmental literacy (EL)? This study reviews literature on how to effectively assess and implement EL initiatives and highlights how other colleges successfully nurture EL in all students. This study also surveys Colby students to understand the levels of EL on campus and to highlight specific programming or curriculum that leads to high EL levels in students. Findings include significantly different EL scores between environmental studies student respondents and respondents in all other disciplines. Additionally, students who identified as not very environmentally aware in high school demonstrated a significantly higher EL score at Colby only if they studied environmental studies. A combination of findings from the literature and the survey help inform suggestions this research makes for Colby College moving forward.
Faculty Sponsor
Mark Tappan
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Education Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1612
Nurturing Environmental Literacy: Higher Education and the Environmental Crisis
Diamond 342
The environmental crisis will affect all people, career paths, and academic disciplines. Acknowledging this, does higher education have an obligation to educate all students for environmental literacy (EL)? This study reviews literature on how to effectively assess and implement EL initiatives and highlights how other colleges successfully nurture EL in all students. This study also surveys Colby students to understand the levels of EL on campus and to highlight specific programming or curriculum that leads to high EL levels in students. Findings include significantly different EL scores between environmental studies student respondents and respondents in all other disciplines. Additionally, students who identified as not very environmentally aware in high school demonstrated a significantly higher EL score at Colby only if they studied environmental studies. A combination of findings from the literature and the survey help inform suggestions this research makes for Colby College moving forward.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/268