Dear Colleagues, This is a call for your contributions to a peer-reviewed, edited volume entitled "Learner-centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies."
Do you have a favorite in-class teaching activity that is simple, easy-to-implement and engages students to become active members of the classroom? Could it be used by other instructors in environmental and sustainability studies courses (including ecology ones)? Would you like to share it with others but haven't found the right venue or opportunity yet? If your answers are "yes", please submit a description of the activity for possible inclusion in a book project that will compile a diverse set of engaging teaching activities to provide instructors with valuable ideas for how to transform their teaching, energize their classrooms, and improve student learning. More details about the project, including appropriate topics, example activities, extended descriptions and submission details, are available here: http://faculty.rwu.edu/lbyrne/book.html Each submission should be concise, only 2-3 pages, and follow a template provided on the website. For complete consideration, contributions should be submitted by January 20, 2015, but earlier submissions will be given higher priority for inclusion. Submit any questions (including whether your activity might fit in the volume) to the editor, Loren Byrne, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. And please share this call with colleagues! Many thanks, Loren ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Loren B. Byrne Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Science Coordinator, Sustainability Studies Program Roger Williams University One Old Ferry Road Bristol, RI 02809 401-254-3890 Office: 243 MNS http://faculty.rwu.edu/lbyrne/ "Hope is the energy created in the process of acting as if we were hopeful." -Mary Pipher in The Green Boat
