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Non-Traditional Pedagogies In Advanced Education: Engaging Head, Hands & Heart For Environmental And Educational Benefit

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Addressing Global Environmental Security Through Innovative Educational Curricula

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Environmental insecurity is perpetuated by advanced education through specialist-oriented, disintegrative disciplines and curricula divorced from human experience and socio-ecological context. While academic specialization is important and often crucial, embedding such knowledge within integrative transdisciplinary realities is necessary in transitioning towards environmental security and, more broadly, sustainability, as per the current UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014). In this paper, I discuss non-traditional sustainability and transformative pedagogies that in combination can enable profound changes in what students are learning, and how. Based on a pedagogical approach that balances cognitive (“head”), psychomotor (“hands”) and affective (“heart”) engagement with the explicit aim of equipping post-secondary graduates with the knowledge, skills and attitudes integral to the development of national and international environmental security, I use the example of integrating Community-Based Research and Community Service-Learning, to contribute towards the social responsibility of advanced education to meet the needs of environmental security. I reflect upon a pedagogical experiment, underway at the University of British Columbia, Canada, that directly addresses and actively contributes towards environmental security and sustainable community development through such pedagogical integration and the lens of food system sustainability, that is, food security.

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  1. Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Main Mall, 2357, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Yona Sipos

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  1. Environmental Studies Program Biology Department, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Susan Allen-Gil

  2. Physics Department, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Lia Stelljes

  3. Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Olena Borysova

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Sipos, Y. (2009). Non-Traditional Pedagogies In Advanced Education: Engaging Head, Hands & Heart For Environmental And Educational Benefit. In: Allen-Gil, S., Stelljes, L., Borysova, O. (eds) Addressing Global Environmental Security Through Innovative Educational Curricula. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9314-2_15

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