Karen Gaul

Ethnographic Methods for Community Visioning part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This project involves students in substantial community-based ethnographic research. Working cooperatively together as a consultancy team, the students learn to use ethnographic and other research methods. They also learn to empower and give voice to various stakeholders and to assemble and synthesize data for a formal report.

Building Resiliency through Food Security: Long-Term Community Partnerships part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Partnering with a food bank garden over time demonstrates ways long-term community partnerships can benefit both students and organizations in the community

Sustainability From the Inside Out: A Learning Community Guided by Patanjali's Yoga Sutras part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This year-long, interdisciplinary, learning community explored the challenges inherent in pursuing sustainable living in today's world and offered concrete tools to move toward a positive global future. Based ...

Voices of Practice: Teaching Yoga, Sustainability, and Justice part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
Karen Gaul, The Evergreen State College Description This essay describes experiments in a practice-based model of teaching at The Evergreen State College. Integrating yogic texts such as the Yoga Sutra with ...