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
This webpage is an academic essay in a curriculum collection that explores a practice-based pedagogical model integrating yoga, sustainability, and social justice in higher education, detailing how contemplative practices like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Gandhian principles foster embodied learning, emotional resilience, and ethical decision-making in students.