Environmental Justice - March 21-25, 2004
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Learning Experience
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Learning Experience The class was based on team work, interviews and group activities. Through the five days we interviewed 12 stakeholders related with environmental issues in Oregon. The first day we had 3 lectures to give us a general idea about environmental justice, history and ethics. Also, we had some learning activities to raise our awareness about body and verbal communication, and how to listen without putting our bias. To me, the last point is one of the most important element that this class teaches. The rest of the days basically consisted in preparing questions for the interviews, meet our guests and debrief the collected information. I liked the different roles we had to play for each interview. Each time there had to be two interviewers and two official recorders. This exercise was useful to me, and I really think we improved during the week. The guidance style of the teachers Dwaine and Kurt was a key point. They didn't tell the group exactly what to do, but they gave us general directions to develop the work. It is difficult to start working under this style of teaching because we are used to the traditional academic "lecture" or "homework" style. However, that is the base of this class, and I really enjoyed it.
Our Guests Connie Kennedy (chair of the Fisherman's Wives of Newport) Fran Recht (Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Habitat) Ron Eber (State Department of Land Development and Conservation) Kevin Odell and Charles Bishop (PACE - EH Multnomah Environmental Health Division NGO) Peter Gutowsky (Natural Resource Planner for the City of Salem) Jeri Sundaval (Environmental Justice Action Group EJAG) John Hayward (Albany Paper Plant) Helen Berg (Mayor of Corvallis) Steve Love and Sherry Pleu (Hewlett Packard) Larry Venell (Oregon Farmer) Teresa Hogue (Gazette Times Media Journalist) Emery Castle (OSU Agriculture Economics Faculty)
Thank you very much all!!
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Susana Díaz Legües |