Place-Based Environmental Health Justice Education: A Community-University-Government-Middle School Partnership
Place-Based Environmental Health Justice Education: A Community-University-Government-Middle School Partnership
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DOI：
10.1089/env.2010.0021
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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2
通讯作者：
Brown, Phil
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作者：
Cohen, Alison K.;Waters, Allison;Brown, Phil
布朗大学超级基金研究计划的社区参与核心与伍纳斯夸塔基特河流域委员会和环境管理系合作，在罗德岛州的中学生中试点了一项环境健康正义计划。我们的课程向学生介绍环境正义和附近的超级基金站点，目标是培养环境健康正义素养并鼓励公民参与当地环境整治。尽管对中学生环境正义教育的研究很少，但植根于社区参与性研究方法的大众教育方法经常用于社区外展活动，组织和吸引当地居民参与社区问题。通过这个特殊的项目，我们提出了一个以地方为基础、以学生为中心、符合标准的环境健康正义教学模式。
In collaboration with the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council and the Department of Environmental Management, the Brown University Superfund Research Program's Community Engagement Core piloted an environmental health justice program with middle school students in Rhode Island. Our curriculum introduces students to environmental justice and the nearby Superfund site, with the goal of building environmental health justice literacy and encouraging civic engagement in local environmental remediation. Although little research has been done on teaching middle school students about environmental justice, popular education approaches rooted in community-based participatory research methods are regularly used in community outreach activities to organize and engage local residents in community issues. With this particular program, we present a place-based, student-centered, standards-aligned model for teaching environmental health justice.