Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities

项目摘要 综合环境科学和健康风险实验室，与多个 亚利桑那州的合作伙伴，建议启动该项目，“建立一个健康的文化，在绿色： 为解决服务不足农村地区的空气和土壤质量问题而开展的前瞻性学习和行动 社区”。我们的总体目标是建立一个全国性的深度参与学习模式， 科学，技术，工程，艺术和数学（STEAM）教育，赋予学生权力 作为环境健康咨询委员会成员，摄影师，科学家和设计师， 环境正义（Environmental Justice，EJ）EJ社区指受影响的地区， 不成比例地暴露于环境危害，并增加了对这些危害的脆弱性。 在环境正义社区中存在着根本和关键的挑战。 在这些空间中成长的青年需要做好应对这些挑战的准备， 成为未来结构性变革的支柱。学生将获得所需的工具，技能和支持 （1）解释交叉性和环境数据，（2）传达项目结果， 建议在地方、区域和国家各级采取行动。拟议的项目集中在 影响亚利桑那州农村8 - 12年级学生健康和公正的社会和环境因素 历史或活动造成重大环境健康危害的社区 资源开采活动。交叉性、环境健康和数据素养是 从科学探究的结果中获得意义是必不可少的。2010年的潜在成果 拟议的项目是增加对交叉性、环境 健康（特别是空气和土壤质量），以及青年和研究人员的数据素养， 并应用这些信息来实现EJ社区的社会正义和健康公平。 这项研究教育计划旨在利用交叉性的变革力量， 帮助推动合作的EJ社区更接近实现社会正义和健康公平。 通过这种方法和严格的学习研究，这项工作的成果将提供 建立绿色健康文化所需的证据基础。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Integrated Environmental Science and Health Risk Laboratory, in collaboration with multiple Arizona partners, propose to launch the project, “Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities”. Our overall goal is to create a national deep engagement learning model of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education that empowers students as environmental health advisory board members, photographers, scientists, and designers living in environmental justice (EJ) communities. EJ communities refers to areas affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and increased vulnerability to those hazards. There are fundamental and critical challenges that exist in environmental justice communities. Youth growing up in these spaces need the preparation to navigate through these challenges and be the future pillars of structural change. Students will acquire the tools, skills and support needed to (1) interpret intersectionality and environmental data and (2) communicate project results and recommend actions at local, regional, and national levels. The proposed project centers on the social and environmental factors that affect health and justice for 8th - 12th graders in rural Arizona communities with significant environmental health hazards posed from historical or active resource extraction activities. Intersectionality and environmental health and data literacy are essential for deriving meaning from the results of scientific inquiry. Potential outcomes for the proposed project are increased understanding and integration of intersectionality, environmental health (specifically air and soil quality), and data literacy among both youth and researchers, and the application such information to achieve social justice and health equity in EJ communities. This research education program aims to leverage intersectionality’s transformational power and help move the collaborating EJ communities closer to achieving social justice and health equity. Through the approach and rigorous learning research, the outcomes of this work will provide the evidence-base needed for building a culture of health in the green.