Hi Folks
I'm seeking resources, curriculum ideas, projects, presenters and
field trip options for a course in Social Justice and Sustainability
that I am facilitating at IC this fall. (Short description included
below) My goal is to educate by engaging students in helping to build
a more just and sustainable community in our area, as well as to
introduce the larger movement that is bringing the realms of social
justice and sustainability together.
I see building the course from community input as pivotal to
achieving the goals of the course. Please consider: How might this
course, with its 18 students, who are required to do 5-6 hours of
team project work a week, contribute to real community needs
(including, perhaps, your organization or block's)? And what are the
deeper issues that you'd like to see this course address - ideally in
a way that can be a contribution?
Community-based higher ed courses should support the community
resource people who contribute to the educational work. I have a
modest amount of funds available to support some of the ways that you
may come up with.
I'd love to talk with anyone interested or just to receive your email
suggestions.
Thanks for your input.
Elan
TOPICS IN SUSTAINABILITY: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY
FALL 2009 TUE/THU 1:10 - 3:50 PM
OBJECTIVES: This highly participatory course will engage students in
understanding the profound connections and the all-too-common
disconnections between the social justice and sustainability agendas
and movements. It also provides tools and field experience for being
effective change agents in contributing to the coming together that
is beginning to occur, especially in our own community.
We begin with the historical and global context of this challenge and
opportunity, then put major emphasis on inspiring national and local
examples. We also focus as a learning circle on the attitudes and
behaviors around race and class, power and privilege, that must be
engaged in order to understand and support this work. You will also
engage in local justice and sustainability-related projects, in field
trips, and in conversations with local leaders in the justice and
sustainability movements. When we see the world equally through the
lenses of justice and sustainability, profound changes can happen!
Topics will include: The Environmental Justice movement and the "Just
Sustainability" movement, Social Justice and Sustainable Community
Principles, Native American Sustainability Perspectives, Undoing
Racism, Eliminating Poverty, Building Partnerships across
Differences, Systems Strategies for Just and Sustainable Communities,
Food Equity, Health Equity, Energy and Climate Equity, Housing
Equity, Green Collar Economy, and Transportation Equity.
FORMAT AND STYLE: The course integrates academic study, presentations
by local practitioners, field trips, creating a learning community
together, reflective work on our race and class patterning, and
service-based projects. We meet one afternoon a week as a whole group
and a second time in project teams or for field trips. The team
projects, which span the whole semester (5-6 hours a week of work
expected), are an empowering opportunity to make a positive
difference in our local community.
--
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Living Associates
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249 607-592-8402 Cell
"Be the change we want to see in the world"
Mohandas Gandhi
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