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Impacting individual and institutional change through a living-learning community on campus |
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In a college dormitory setting where many choices are predetermined for residents, working towards a more sustainable lifestyle can become difficult and frustrating for concerned students. A Creation Care living-learning community has become a home for students with a variety of backgrounds and interests who are passionate about sustainability. This presentation, led by a student and a faculty mentor, will explore the model of a living-learning community within the residence life structure of a college, where students engage complex environmental issues and pursue sustainable living practices. Residents are connected with faculty mentors who lead conversations about ecology, climate change, economics, national policy, and community living. Students learn to engage in civil discourse and then put their discussions into action on campus and in the local community. Residents have participated in service-learning projects such as cleaning up rivers and parks, maintaining local native landscapes surrounding the dormitory, and vermi-composting their food waste in the dorm basement. Such conversation and action encourages residents to consider the larger impact of the daily choices they make. Above all, this living-learning residence life community has played an important role in challenging the college to pursue sustainability as an institution and it has become a place for students to share new ideas, frustrations, and deepening commitments to support each other in the work of sustainability. |
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Name: AASHE URL: http://www.aashe.org
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| Heffner, Gail. and Casto, Anna. "Impacting individual and institutional change through a living-learning community on campus" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AASHE, D. L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 09, 2011 <Not Available>. 2013-05-21 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p521262_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Heffner, G. G. and Casto, A. L. , 2011-10-09 "Impacting individual and institutional change through a living-learning community on campus" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AASHE, D. L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA <Not Available>. 2013-05-21 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p521262_index.html |
Publication Type: Briefing Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In a college dormitory setting where many choices are predetermined for residents, working towards a more sustainable lifestyle can become difficult and frustrating for concerned students. A Creation Care living-learning community has become a home for students with a variety of backgrounds and interests who are passionate about sustainability. This presentation, led by a student and a faculty mentor, will explore the model of a living-learning community within the residence life structure of a college, where students engage complex environmental issues and pursue sustainable living practices. Residents are connected with faculty mentors who lead conversations about ecology, climate change, economics, national policy, and community living. Students learn to engage in civil discourse and then put their discussions into action on campus and in the local community. Residents have participated in service-learning projects such as cleaning up rivers and parks, maintaining local native landscapes surrounding the dormitory, and vermi-composting their food waste in the dorm basement. Such conversation and action encourages residents to consider the larger impact of the daily choices they make. Above all, this living-learning residence life community has played an important role in challenging the college to pursue sustainability as an institution and it has become a place for students to share new ideas, frustrations, and deepening commitments to support each other in the work of sustainability. |
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