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Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (SCC) Webinar<\/u>
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
12:00 Noon Eastern\/9:00 AM Pacific

\u201cCompetencies and Pedagogies\u00a0for Sustainability Education”

Tina Evans
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Sustainability studies educators in colleges and universities must identify and teach the knowledge, skills, and abilities their\u00a0graduates will most need to advance sustainability while confronting perhaps the most serious, sweeping, and integrated set of\u00a0challenges humanity has ever known. Drawing upon her recently published article \u201cCompetencies and Pedagogies for Sustainability\u00a0Education: A Roadmap for Sustainability Studies Program Development in Colleges and Universities\u201d\u00a0<https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/11\/19\/5526<\/a>>, Evans articulates and describes a set of five competencies for the sustainability\u00a0field and suggests potentially effective pedagogies for teaching them. Findings from her article in the areas of both competencies\u00a0and pedagogies for sustainability education imply the benefits of integrative, active, collaborative, and applied approaches to\u00a0curriculum development and teaching\u2014approaches that directly involve students in learning and practicing transdisciplinary\u00a0engagement in service to sustainability.\u00a0The Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies program at Colorado Mountain College serves as an example of how her articulated\u00a0competency framework is being applied to evaluate and enhance curriculum and learning outcomes. The competency framework\u00a0and pedagogical recommendations offered may also serve as roadmaps for educators at other institutions who prepare graduates to\u00a0address the pressing challenges of sustainability evident in communities, nations, and the world.

Dr. Tina Lynn Evans is a Professor of Sustainability Studies at Colorado Mountain College (CMC) where she teaches in the Bachelor\u00a0of Arts program in that field. She is also the author of\u00a0Occupy Education: Living and Learning Sustainability\u00a0(2012, Peter Lang).\u00a0Dr. Evans has led and participated in extensive course and program development efforts in environmental and sustainability studies\u00a0for more than 15 years. She focuses much of her teaching on sustainability theory and practice, socio-cultural aspects of\u00a0sustainability, sustainable economics, energy issues in society, permaculture design, and career development in sustainability. Her\u00a0recent publications focus on sustainability competencies and pedagogies, sustainable leadership, hope and agency in sustainability\u00a0education, and transdisciplinary theory and practice.\u00a0Evans was awarded the 2017 Campus Sustainability Research Award from the\u00a0Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education for her article \u201cFinding Heart: Generating and Maintaining\u00a0Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education\u201d (Journal of Sustainability Education, November 2017). That same year, she\u00a0was also named college-wide faculty of the year at Colorado Mountain College.\u00a0Evans also serves as the lead designer and\u00a0implementer of the Bear Park Permaculture Center at the Steamboat Springs campus of CMC. Bear Park is a two-thirds acre site\u00a0that serves as a living laboratory for permaculture, sustainability studies, environmental science, culinary arts, art, and other\u00a0academic programs.

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