A New Model of Learning: Environmental Health in a Global World.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Environmental Health in a Global World at New York University was re-designed as a class participatory effort, challenging undergraduate students to understand environmental hazards and the resultant adverse health outcomes by embracing the inherent complexity of environmental risks and proposing solutions.

Methods

Following introductory lectures, students are placed into teams and assigned a specific perspective, or avatar, which includes learning to see the challenge from the perspective of a technical expert such as a biologist, an engineer, or an anthropologist. The teams then design specific systems maps to visualize the complex interactions that lead to adverse health outcomes after a given environmental exposure. The maps highlight potential leverage poin

SUBMITTER: Rom WN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10297959 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature