Mastery of ART in Teaching

Environmental Justice

Armchair Experiment in the
Mastery of Arts of Teaching.

‘Tend you had to teach a course called
“Environmental Justice” next semester.

Don’t matter your department, discipline,
training, background, experience: math or
literature, chemistry or religion, makes
no never mind..

Gun to your head.
Got to deliver the goods.

Environmental Justice!

Would you spend spare time October
thru January reading your butt off to
get ready?

Google facts & fictions, inequities,
disparities, travesties, crash of
market & glacier. flood &
drought, hurricane &
tornado, flush-less
urinals & tiny
shower heads?

People watering lawns in Arizona?

Work up a syllabus:
texts, papers, posters,
power-point presentations
& examination? Facilitate
discussion for credit? schedule
vans for field trips? Outside
speakers for guest lectures?
Measure aims & objectives,
goals.& outcomes demonstrating
we will know environmental
justice when we see some? .

Generate rigor AND Innovation?.

Only a few months to get ready.
And you’ve GOT to teach it so
don’t be wasting precious time
agonizing over qualifications: look,
the P in your Phdegree should
trans-pose if not transmogrify
what you know about statistics
or sociology, peace or ceramics.
play wrighting and mitochondria
& ought to be abduct-able across
the curriculum to start a swell about
Environments on the one hand.
Justice on the other.

Zero base.
What do you mean: environment?
Internal? External? Classroom ?
Community? Rope swings and
smoking kiosks? Justice?
Just us? Local food
for thought?

Reinvent wheels from old scratch
and we’ll come to some terms of
our own regardless of what anyone
else thinks or says. This is
Old old-school as opposed
to old-school..

Old school is ok. too, sustains & will do.
Work IT up then, the nitty-gritty &
devilish details. Cover the ground.
Do it justice.