The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and the NOVA Sustainability Office are very proud to announce an event in which we see pedagogical practices in the context of civic issues & environmental sustainability.
You won’t want to miss it!
How We Learn on Campus Tells us about Life Issues in our Larger World
A case study in using the campus as a living, learning Laboratory.
Dr. Catherine Middlecamp
Professor, Environmental Studies in the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, November 21st
Annandale Campus, CE Forum
Talk 10:30 to 11:45 AM
Workshop 1:15 to 3:15 pm (limited to 30 participants)
Register for the talk using this link.
Register for the workshop using this link.
Dr. Middlecamp also holds a joint appointment in the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an affiliate faculty member of the Chemistry Department. Her work lies at the intersection of science, people, and the planet.
As one example, Middlecamp is the editor-in-chief for Chemistry in Context, a 25-year national curriculum project of the American Chemical Society.
She has been nationally recognized for her work in many ways, including being elected a fellow of the Association for Women in Science (2003), of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), and of the American Chemical Society (2009). She also is a member of the National Fellowship Board of SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Responsibilities and Engagements) and in 2011 was awarded the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science.
Dr. Middlecamp will present a morning seminar that is open to all faculty and staff, in which she describes a course that she teaches that will show us how to expand our teaching practices into the real world of our campus and college as we learn how to use our campus as a living, learning laboratory.
This will be followed by an afternoon workshop that can accommodate thirty people. Dr. Middlecamp will provide the how-to of engaging students in learning about the quality of their own lives on the planet.
From Dr. Middlecamp:
When it comes to learning how energy, food, water, and waste are handled on a college campus, the answers are not in the back of the book. In fact, there is no book! Even so, every campus offers its instructors an amazing number of stories about buildings, grounds, transportation, water, and the energy infrastructure. This talk tells some of these stories with an eye to how they can be used to engage students in learning about science (generally), about sustainability (more specifically) and about improving the quality of life on our planet both today and tomorrow.