A5044825220- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Architecture, Art, Education
- Design Education and Practice
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban Planning and Landscape Design
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
University of Arizona
2024-2025
Solving today’s environmental challenges requires interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural understanding, and community engagement. We present a model framework designed to integrate these critical elements into sustainability-focused education, tested through immersive projects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This connects students with real-world challenges, empowering them co-create actionable, community-driven solutions.The consists of three core components:Interdisciplinary...
We are developing a framework to explore environmental sustainability and cultural resilience topics in curriculum emphasizing cross-cultural, international, interdisciplinary approaches through community-driven research projects the US-Mexico Borderlands. Structured as circular process, includes: 1) Community Relationship Building, 2) Scoping Information Discovery, 3) Co-creation of Opportunities, 4) Development Community-Driven Solutions, 5) Sharing Lived Experiences, 6) Multi-stakeholder...
We are developing a framework to guide researchers and educators incorporate the community-based participatory research (CBPR) in course curricula. The is circular process including 1) Community Relationship Building, 2) Scoping Information Discovery, 3) Co-Create Opportunities, 4) Developing Community-Driven Solutions, 5) Sharing Lived Experiences, 6) Multi-stakeholder Evaluation Iteration. In this session, we will share how has been applied water-focused courses, our successes lessons...