Throughout the course of this semester, you will be develop, describe, and share your own Sustainabilty Worldview. We'll build this idea unit by unit, largely following a model presented by Victor Nolet in Chapter 4 of Educating for Sustainability: Principles and Practices for Teachers (on Course Reserve, assigned reading for Week 4).
We'll use this sustainability worldview as a guiding framework which will not only help you complete your capstone project itself, but will also get you thinking reflectively about the type of work you'd like to pursue (and why) when you graduate.
Read the Nolet (2016) chapter, the Earth Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and then write about the following:
Grading Criteria | Total Possible Points (20) |
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Substance - Thoroughly answers the questions asked and provides appropriate support of those answers from required course readings (and external sources as relevant). Submission is thoughtful and detailed. |
15 |
Mechanics - Proofread for grammatical and typographical errors and includes appropriate citation where applicable. |
5 |
Focus on the knowledge you've been developing as you dig into your Capstone. As Nolet (2016) suggests, this knowledge should be both broad and basic as well as more specialized. Use your big ideas for solving sustainability issues to help cultivate that broader knowledge you'll need to build a solid foundation.
Grading Criteria | Total Possible Points (20) |
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Substance - Thoroughly answers the questions asked and provides appropriate support of those answers from required course readings (and external sources as relevant). Submission is thoughtful and detailed. |
20 |
Mechanics - Proofread for grammatical and typographical errors and includes appropriate citation where applicable. |
5 |
Nolet (2016) describes the goal of our entire Capstone experience rather nicely:
"Engage directly with real-world problems and challenges that enable [students] to apply theory in authentic contexts and to develop habits of thinking and dispositions to act on behalf of sustainability goals."
Grading Criteria | Total Possible Points (20) |
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Substance - Thoroughly answers the questions asked and provides appropriate support of those answers from required course readings (and external sources as relevant). Submission is thoughtful and detailed. |
15 |
Mechanics - Proofread for grammatical and typographical errors and includes appropriate citation where applicable. |
5 |
For our final Sustainability Worldview assignment, you need to pull everything together. This project has afforded you the opportunity to really test yourself - whether that's your assumptions, preconceptions, biases, or beliefs (Nolet, 2016).
Grading Criteria | Total Possible Points (40) |
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Substance - Thoroughly answers the questions asked and provides appropriate support of those answers from required course readings (and external sources as relevant). Submission is thoughtful and detailed. |
30 |
Mechanics - Proofread for grammatical and typographical errors and includes appropriate citation where applicable. |
10 |