Preservice and Teacher's Workshops

The Environmental and Climate Justice Workshop introduces teachers and pre service teachers to the concept of Environmental Governance, a tool that provides a participatory structure for examining real-world issues such as development pressures and environmental degradation. [The actual topic can be adjusted to fit the needs of the class that is requesting the workshop]. 

The Environmental Governance model is a way to examine stakeholders, opportunities, treats and develop a desired outcome.  As such is a flexible and powerful framework for engaging students and educators in the cognitive process of defining issues within an environmental, social, and political context that can lead to creative and novel opportunities that go beyond the stereotypical or status quo solutions to environmental threats.

Key themes addressed in the workshops include: environmental justice (centered on biodiversity and resource use) and climate justice (with a spotlight on climate change and the effects of climate disruption). Students and educators link global issues with local realities, using examples of both causes and solutions to environmental injustices around the world. Lessons will draw on examples of Canadian organizations’ working to promote both ecological and social justice in a development context, with a specific focus on Falls Brook Centre’s own overseas projects.

Workshop Themes & Presentation Resources

• An Ecological Governance PowerPoint presentation is available to introduce this framework to teachers. 
• A collection of case studies and background materials is available to tailor to the needs of the participating class
• Worldview comprehension readings have been developed on five Falls Brook Centre overseas projects that can be used to establish a context for discussion around resource use, biodiversity, food security and economics and appropriate technology.
• Global Hunger Quiz – a PowerPoint quiz that will quickly stimulate thought on issues of food security.

For more information contact:

Lavinia Salinas or
Education Team

Tel: (506)375-4310  
Fax: (506)375-4221

E-mail: lavinia@fallsbrookcentre.ca or education@fallsbroookcentre.ca