Jean MacGregor

Environmental Studies

The Evergreen State College

Jean MacGregor: I am a Senior Scholar at the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College, where I also teach and supervise theses in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program.  I direct the Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative, whose mission is to prepare undergraduates to live in a world where the complex issues of sustainability—environmental quality, community health and wellbeing, and environmental justice are paramount. This faculty and curriculum development project has involved over 1,000 college and university faculty at 50 colleges and universities in  Washington and northern Oregon.

 

In my “citizen life,” I’m active in bird conservation and strategies for reducing of toxic chemicals in the environment. With others, I helped rewrite the pesticide policy for Thurston County, Washington in order to reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides in all county roads, lakes, and parks.

Project Leader, Workshop Leader, Website Contributor

Project Leader

Curriculum for the Bioregion Curriculum Collection part of Curriculum for the Bioregion
Curriculum for the Bioregion engages faculty communities in exploring the complex issues of sustainability - environmental quality, true community health and wellbeing, and social equity and justice - and in building sustainability concepts and place-based learning into a broad array of courses and disciplines.

Website Content Contributions

Activity (1)

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: Suggestions for Observing in Nature part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
A workshop for enabling students to sit quietly and observantly in the natural world.

Essay (1)

Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Essays
This essay sets out a rationale and framework for pedagogies of reflective and contemplative practice and makes an argument for why they are critically important to sustainability education.