Reading the Urban Landscape: The Case of a Campus Tour at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Autor/inn/en	Bardekjian, Adrina; Classens, Michael; Sandberg, L. Anders
Titel	Reading the Urban Landscape: The Case of a Campus Tour at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2 (2012) 3, S.249-256 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2190-6483
DOI	10.1007/s13412-012-0084-x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Urban Environment; Undergraduate Students; Assignments; Educational Policy; Administrative Policy; Social Justice; Student Attitudes; College Environment; College Role; Introductory Courses; Sustainable Development; Environmental Education; Science and Society; Social Responsibility; Instructional Effectiveness; Campuses; Educational Facilities; Educational Facilities Design; Site Development; Horticulture; Field Trips; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Stadtökologie; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Schülerverhalten; Hochschulumwelt; Einführungskurs; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Soziale Verantwortung; Unterrichtserfolg; Bildungsstätte; Gartenbau; Exkursion; Kanada
Abstract	This paper presents a campus tour assignment in a first-year undergraduate environmental studies course at York University, Toronto, Canada. As a pedagogical tool, the assignment enables students to interrogate the dominant narratives of a university's immediate physical spaces and to apply broader theoretical and practical concepts to their meanings and understandings. An exploration of three sites on the tour is offered as illustrations: a storm water pond, a woodlot, and a native species garden. Complicating the histories of these sites provides entry points for a variety of conversations and debates in reference to environmental sustainability, social justice, and civic engagement. The main objective of the campus tour is to prompt students to move beyond description to analysis and to raise questions about campus features by making connections to historical choices, policy alternatives and self-reflexivity. Many of the ideas presented could be modified for use on other campuses and could invite a larger discursive discussion on social and sustainability issues. (As Provided).
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