Assistant Professor Kathryn Lanouette joins multi-year environmental education collaboration
Summary
Lanouette joins nonprofit Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and a local elementary school to manage an ongoing project addressing climate change and enhancing science education
Full Description
Assistant Professor of Education and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC) and Environment and Sustainability Program (ESP), Kathryn Lanouette, has joined a multi-year collaboration with the environmental education nonprofit Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and a Richmond public elementary school. They are focusing on how transforming the schoolyard to be more climate-change resilient can shape learning opportunities in and around the school. Lanouette and Meredith Dash, Virginia Environmental Education Specialist with the Alliance, presented in March at the 2024 international conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Their presentation was titled "Co-Transformation of Schoolyard Landscapes and Curriculum: A Pilot Study of Emergent Climate Change Teaching Practices." This collaboration, an example of how different groups can work together to both address climate change inequities and support science learning, builds from a School of Education SEED grant, focused on digital mapping and paper mapping to support science.
