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Tiêu đề
Teaching sustainability in metro Orlando: the evolution of the pragmatic liberal arts at Rollins college
Tác giả
Stephenson R.B.
Năm xuất bản
2022
Source title
Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-12-819130-9.00056-5
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Sustainability is the definitive ethic of our time. Its measure of humanity forces a moral response to the specter of climate change. With transportation emissions exceeding power plants as the United States' largest source of greenhouse gases, it is impossible to secure sustainability without addressing automobile dependence. For half a century, Orlando has been one of fastest growing and most car-dependent metropolitan areas in the United States. Since the early 1990s, Rollins College Environmental Studies students have prepared scores of projects for community partners to advance the tenets of sustainability. Active transportation has been a particular emphasis, along with the preservation of natural lands, green infrastructure, ecological restoration, and walkable urbanism. This initiative is inspired by the legacy of the college's iconoclastic president, Hamilton Holt. In the late 1920s, Holt broke the staid academic formula by marrying pragmatism and the liberal arts. In 1931, he named John Dewey to chair the Rollins College Colloquy on the Liberal Arts. Dedicated to analyzing the workings of nature and society from “outside the school,” Dewey's “learning by doing” approach imbues the Rollins commitment to project-based learning. Shifting professor-centered instruction to student-centered projects creates a dynamic classroom focused on problem-solving and producing a quality product for a community partner. Faculty assumes the role of coach, facilitator, and colearner, and to make this dynamic work, they spend more upfront time: 1. Assessing the scope of potential projects. 2. Plotting the logistics of meshing theory and analysis. 3. Determining the makeup of the deliverable product. 4. Securing a community partner. 5. Developing a strategy to procure quality presentations. In 2014, sustainability became a watchword when the Orlando city council adopted a Greenworks Action Plan to make Orlando “the green capitol of the Southeast.” Rollins faculty partnered with the city's Sustainability and Resilience Office in directing student projects designed to advance the plan. The college's strategic planning took a similar path, and in 2021, project-based learning is a focal point for integrating sustainability into the college curriculum. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Từ khóa
Active transportation; Affordable housing; Ecological restoration; Equity; Greenways; Orlando Greenworks Action Plan; Pragmatic liberal arts; Project-based learning; Sustainability; Walkable urbanism
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Elsevier
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Book chapter
Open Access
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Scopus