Principal Investigator: Natalie Forssman, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Community, Culture and Global Studies
Project description
The new Bachelor of Sustainability (B.Sust.) degree at UBC Okanagan endeavours to equip students with skills to work effectively across disciplines to confront sustainability challenges. This study will connect and track the development interdisciplinary skills alongside perspectives on power, privilege, and positionality. Additionally, it aims to provide a critical synthesis and reflection on scholarship of teaching and learning, science and technology studies, and Indigenous ways of knowing literatures to show why the development of interdisciplinary skills and power, privilege, and positionality perspectives should be connected in pedagogy for sustainability.
Research questions
- Which interdisciplinary habits of mind do students develop through the whole-cohort interdisciplinary SUST courses? Do these perspectives emphasize synthesis of disciplinary perspectives, or some other framework for attending to differences between frameworks and ways of knowing?
- What perspectives on power, privilege, and positionality do students develop through the PBL CSL courses?
- Is there an association between the development of interdisciplinary habits of mind and the development of perspectives on power, privilege, and positionality? Which interdisciplinary habits of mind are aligned with the development of perspectives on power, privilege, and positionality?