Unintended consequences : an open educational resource about environmental health and environmental justice
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Hendricks, Stephenie Dilley
issued: 2024-09-04T22:07:57Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Despite recommendations in 1999 by the Committee on Environmental Justice Health Sciences Policy Program at the U.S. Institute of Health that provided evidence for the importance of education among medical professionals, policy makers, and the public on environmental justice (EJ) and environmental health (EH) (Medicine viii), the presence of EH and EJ content within general post-secondary curriculum remains exiguous (Carlos Garibay et al. 921). While the U.S. National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences has argued that learning about EH “can facilitate students’ learning in science, math, language, history, and civics,'' (Hursh et al. 2), environmental curricula for mobilizing accessible knowledge about EH and EJ for students regardless of their academic discipline is particularly absent. “Unintended Consequences: An Open Educational Resource About Environmental Health and Environmental Justice,” is an Environmental Humanities project delivering a podcast centered post-secondary curriculum using subjective, qualitative Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) methodology for an Open Education Resources (OER) modular EH and EJ curriculum. Since SPN uses stories as data, students learn about EJ and EH through the voices of those with lived experiences in these realms, including about the complexities of EH and EJ identification and definition. Four distinct modules each contain an instructor guide, learning outcomes, key concepts, a podcast, a unique article, and curated materials. Four distinct module themes include: “A Brief and Recent History of Environmental Health,” “Health Professionals on the Front Lines,” “On the Fenceline,” and “What Instead?” (featuring Green Chemistry, alternatives chemicals assessment, just transitions, shareholder, and consumer advocacy and sustainable business). Limitations to this research include significant subjectivity throughout, a relatively small sample size, and the small scope meant as brief introductions to a variety of aspec…
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/89165
note: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: AN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE by Stephenie Dilley Hendricks BA, Dominican University of California 2005 MA, Dominican University of California 2016 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Sustainability) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) September 2024 CC Stephenie Dilley Hendricks BY-NC-ND 4.0., 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Unintended Consequences: An Open Educational Resource About Environmental Health and Justice submitted by Stephenie Dilley Hendricks in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Examining Committee: Greg Garrard, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisor Susan Murch, Department of Chemistry Supervisory Committee Member Kim Thomas, Senior Advisor Editorial Policy (BBC) Supervisory Committee Member Sumer Seiki, Okanagan School of Education University Examiner Vanessa Andreotti, University of Victoria External Examiner Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Despite recommendations in 1999 by the Committee on Environmental Justice Health Sciences Policy Program at the U.S. Institute of Health that provided evidence for the importance of education among medical professionals, policy makers, and the public on environmental justice (EJ) and environmental health (EH) (Medicine viii), the presence of EH and EJ content within general post-secondary curriculum remains exiguous (Carlos Garibay et al. 921). While the U.S. National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences has argued that learning about EH “can facilitate students’ learning in science, math, language, history, and civics,'' (Hursh et al. 2), environmental curricula for mobilizing acces…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0445310
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Garrard, Greg
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89165