Towards a pedagogy of social-ecological collaborations: engaging students and urban nonprofits for an ecology with cities.

ABSTRACT: The concept of ecology with cities calls for a broader scope of participatory research and pedagogical tools for engagement with urban environmental issues. Projects that take an ecology with cities approach can provide opportunities for diverse audiences, including students, teachers, community members, and scientists, to participate in urban ecology, thus serving as potential steppingstones for further engagement. While there is increasing scholarship on the value of participatory approaches for increasing ecological literacy (e.g. citizen science), less has been written on the collaborative process of such experiences, particularly the social science aspects that can lead to successful outcomes and lessons learned. This paper describes a collaborative research project that engaged under

SUBMITTER: Toomey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942029 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature