Environmental Justice Essay Collection

Addressing the Complexity of Teaching Training Teachers Through a Social and Environmental Lens
Matthew Nyman, Oregon State University
This essay page, part of the InTeGrate initiative, presents a preliminary model for integrating social and environmental justice into K–5 teacher education, emphasizing experiential learning, science literacy, and activism, while acknowledging the author’s evolving understanding of justice-oriented pedagogy. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Creating Empathy for People in Difficult Environmental Situations
Angie Gumm, St. Mary's Parish Catholic School
An essay page from the InTeGrate project discussing pedagogical strategies for fostering empathy in environmental justice education, using case studies like the Green Revolution and waste management to explore ethical dilemmas, student engagement, and interdisciplinary teaching approaches. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Incorporating Environmental Justice as Part of a Holistic Approach to Environmental Science Courses
Michael Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College
This essay page from the InTeGrate project details a community college educator's approach to integrating environmental justice into environmental science and geology courses by combining scientific analysis with ethics, economics, and politics to foster holistic, critical understanding of environmental issues impacting marginalized communities. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Cultivating Action: Environmental Justice in the Environmental Science Classroom
Kate Darby, Western Washington University
This webpage is an educational essay discussing how to integrate environmental justice into environmental science curricula by addressing social equity, historical context, and civic engagement, emphasizing interdisciplinary teaching methods and student action. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Calculating Costs: Economic and Environmental Justice in Urban Geography
Christopher Cusack, Keene State College
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the integration of economic base analysis and environmental justice in urban geography education, focusing on rustbelt cities' industrial decline, contamination issues, Superfund site mapping, and pedagogical approaches to teaching socioeconomic and environmental inequities. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Environmental Justice as a Strategy for Student Engagement
Julie Maxson, Metropolitan State University
This essay page details how environmental justice serves as a pedagogical strategy for engaging diverse, first-generation college students in environmental science, showcasing student-driven research topics and curriculum development, and highlighting a case study on the Prairie Island Indian Community’s environmental challenges. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Environmental Justice: making students comfortable about the uncomfortable
April Baptiste, Colgate University
An essay page from the InTeGrate project discussing pedagogical strategies for teaching environmental justice, emphasizing classroom openness, critical thinking, and the use of workshops and student-led discussions to engage learners with challenging socio-environmental issues. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Finding the Origin of Environmental Injustice in a Broad Social and Historical Context
Josefina Li, Bemidji State University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the systemic roots of environmental injustice through a broad social, historical, and interdisciplinary lens, emphasizing pedagogical approaches to teaching these issues by connecting racism, classism, and ecological economics within a framework of sustainability and social justice. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Environmental Justice -- When Is it Absent?
DIANE BERES, Ripon College
An essay page from an InTeGrate workshop that discusses teaching environmental justice in an interdisciplinary environmental studies course, emphasizing critical thinking about decision-making, stakeholder impacts, consumer responsibility, and civic engagement to recognize systemic absences of justice. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

A Science Writing Seminar on Geology and Justice
Jill Schneiderman, Vassar College
An essay page from the InTeGrate project, authored by Jill Schneiderman of Vassar College, detailing her development and teaching of a writing-intensive science seminar integrating geology with environmental and social justice, including course topics like slow violence, natural disasters, and feminist scholarship, along with syllabi and publications. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.