1. Sir McChesney George Secondary School
Sir McChesney George Secondary
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Morrison, M.; McGovern, D.; Cornel, M.; Doane, K.;
Locussol, Y.; Walz, R. J.; Richardson, E.
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

2. Education for Sustainability
• Mitigation: addressing the source
• Adaptation: addressing the consequences
What can education do to reduce
vulnerability, support resilience and
strengthen adaptive capacity?

3. Strong broad social networks
Access to resources and information
Evidence-based decision making
Building on strengths (including TEK)
Understand place-based change over
time in SES

4. Education for Sustainability
• Vulnerability
• Resilience
• Adaptive Capacity
Place-Based Education
Experiential learning
Community-based Participatory
Research

5. Opposes the banking model of education
Learning as a social endeavor
Encourages student peer interaction
Encourages student interaction with the
object of study

6. Local context as foundation for the
curriculum
Inherently interdisciplinary
Inherently experiential
Broader objectives than economic
development
Connects place with self and
community

7. Co-learning
Shared decision-making authority
Mutual ownership of the products of
research

8. Original youth research
Multiple subjects
One theme
Staggered throughout the year

9. Publishing student research
International youth dialogue

10. •64 square kilometers
•1500 people
•3 meters above sea level
•600 millimeters of rain

11. Ecological
• Low elevation
• Storms
• Arid
• Thin soil
• Saline groundwater
Social
• Undiversified food, water,
livelihoods
• Isolated

12. I. Needs
Assessment
IV.
Monitoring
II. Design
and
Evaluation
III.
Implementation

13. Needs Assessment
• Heritage and
sustainability
Participatory Design
• Education professionals
• Sustainability scholars
• Barbudan stakeholders

14. •Biology
•Mangrove
ecosystem services
•Geography
•Primary Sources
and site visits
•Social Studies
•Oral history
•Participatory M&E
•Student surveys and
focus groups

15. Vulnerability Place-Based Education
•Social •Resilience
•Undiversified food, •Communication
water, livelihoods networks
•Isolated •Social capital
•Ecological •Strengthen TEK
•Low elevation •Adaptive Capacity
•Storms •Access to information
•Arid •Understanding
•Thin soil change
•Saline groundwater •Social learning

16. Thanks to…
HERC
Dr. Sophia Perdikaris
Barbuda
Principal John Mussington
Calvin Gore (Barbuda Council)
All our students and fellow teachers
Funding
National Science Foundation