Jessica, In an environmental leadership class, I’ve found good engagement from focusing on the Goldman Prize winners. For reasonably sized classes I assign each student one year of award winners to review. The Goldman website has short overviews of each winner organized by year, their acceptance speeches, and short videos about them). Depending on class size, I have them write short strength/weaknesses pieces and/or pick one to feature in a short presentation to the class (and if time allows, we watch a couple of the short profile videos).
To provide some overview structure, I assign the piece Jeff Langholz and a number of his students did analyzing a couple of decades of Goldman winners. Their breakdown of strategies adopted varying by environmental issue, form of government, etc gives some sense of patterns and a macro view. It provides them some insight on the need to adopt different strategies depending on situation. Given the award winners include a North American each year but is otherwise internationally focused, it also provides some easier bridges to the international for students who typically have focused domestically. Best, Geoff Geoff Dabelko Professor and Director, Environmental Studies Program Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs The Ridges, Bldg 22 Rm 119 1 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 USA T: 740-593-2117 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.ohio.edu/environmentalstudies<http://www.ohio.edu/environmentalstudies> www.facebook.com/OhioES<http://www.facebook.com/OhioES> www.twitter.com/OhioES<http://www.twitter.com/OhioES> www.twitter.com/geoffdabelko<http://www.twitter.com/geoffdabelko> Senior Advisor, Environmental Change and Security Program Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp<http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp> www.newsecuritybeat.org<http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jessica Green Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] Assignments for an Enviro Activism class? Dear GEP-ed-ers, It's that time of the summer -- syllabus prep! I'm teaching a class on environmental activism. The last time around, I had an assignment where the students had to profile an activist organization and provide some analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, per the literature we had read. It didn't go over as well as I would have liked. I'm wondering if any of you have assignments that involve engaging with / learning about real life activist organizations, and how you've framed them and what types of deliverables are involved. Happy to compile and share if anyone is interested. With thanks in advance, Jessica -- Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies New York University Author, Rethinking Private Authority<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10148.html> Winner, 2015 ISA Sprout Award, 2015 APSA Caldwell Award, 2015 Levine Prize Website<https://wp.nyu.edu/jessica_green/> Advising page<https://goo.gl/Ty0H3E> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
