English for Specific Purpose: Revitalizing Climate Change Awareness Using Digital Literacy and Gamification for Engineering Faculty in Papua

The air quality index (AQI) in Papua has the best index among other provinces in Indonesia. Papua has different geographical and social conditions than western Indonesia. In particular, forests in Papua are more numerous with fewer industries and automobiles than provinces in western Indonesia. The article aims to determine respondents' perceptions related to climate change awareness and pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in regions that have AQI in Indonesia, namely Papua. This study uses a survey strategy through a questionnaire instrument for students who have received the application of digital literacy and gamification in the English for Specific Purposes class. The questionnaire was distributed to be filled in by respondents with a total number of responses totaling 164 responses from students of engineering faculty. This study identified that respondents' awareness of climate change was in the moderately aware category (M = 3.8). These findings are directly proportional to PEB respondents who are at the middle level (M = 3.9). Furthermore, analysis of the data shows that respondents are highly aware (M = 4.3) that humans have a responsibility for climate change, and respondents are highly concern (M = 4.4) to carry out forestation both by individuals and community. The finding implication of this study is learning through digital literacy and gamification has a positive potential to be applied through policy and developed into a learning model to increase awareness of climate change and PEB. Keywords:  Climate Change, Pro-environmental Behavior, Digital Literacy, Englsih for Specific Puprpose

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, October 16, 2009

I. New Minor: Climate Change and Energy Utah State University is proposing a stand-alone minor in Climate Change and Energy. II. Program Review: Medical Radiography, Academic Year 2007-2008 For undergraduate studies, the Department offers an Associate of Applied Science in Medical Radiography. This is a two-year, full-time program which includes didactic and clinical experience at cooperating hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices. III. Program Review: Communications, Academic Year 2007-2008 Communication is a four-year program that prepares students to work in a wide variety of fields in both human and mass communication and also in the digital film industry. IV. Program Review: Composition, Academic Year 2007-2008 The English Composition Program has its home within the English Department, which resides in the School of Arts and Letters

Not for Sale: How home grown Scandinavian eco-cities take climate change imaginaries beyond market mechanisms

Inter-governmental climate talks have, over a twenty-year period, had little success in implementing measures to mitigate human-induced climate change. Their fundamental perspective, one of economic rationality, has not provided a compelling or effective basis for achieving their desired goals. Over the same interval, at the local scale, various constituencies have come together to address climate change by developing communities that allow their residents to live a lifestyle that includes concrete measures that do deal with the problems of climate change. By taking a perspective that emphasises ecological rationality, these eco-communities and eco-villages are challenging the status quo. This thesis examines four Scandinavian eco-city case sites and uses narrative walking interviews (where in-person observations were made of the characteristics of the built environment), the results of Google Web searches (to examine how these sites are characterised in English digital media), critical literature review, and comparative analysis. It then applies the theoretical frameworks of Critical Institutional Theory and Strategic, Values-based Planning Theory to examine how it is that these efforts have succeeded, to determine who were the key decision makers and who benefited from these projects, and to see what lessons about equity can be drawn from these local actions

IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 2016

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education. Impact is produced by the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at the College of General Studies, Boston University (www.bu.edu/cgs/citl)

DCMS does science: highlights from the launch of the DCMS Science and Research Advisory Committee (SRAC)

"Based on the presentations, discussions and Q&A sessions during the SRAC launch event, this publication: highlights the key themes discussed by speakers and launch attendees; summarises the main points from the speakers’ presentations; and, outlines the SRAC’s next steps." - page 7

Strengthening Resilience by thinking of Knowledge as a nutrient connecting the local person to global thinking: The case of Social Technology/Tecnologia Social

In this chapter, we describe the Knowledge as a Nutrient framework that emerged from these conversations. We describe how it relates to the Tecnologia Social policy approach to sustainability, developed in Brazil (Dagnino et al. 2004, Fundação Banco do Brasil 2009, Costa 2013), which is not well known in the anglophone world. Tecnologia Social was both inspired by and rooted in Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking (2000, Klix 2014).   We show how this framework has the potential to increase community resilience and adaptive capacity, not only for communities that face and must adapt to climate change but for all communities in the throes of complex social, ecological, economic and political transitions.This research was supported by the International Development Research Centre, grant number IDRC GRANT NO. 106002-00