The Center for Global Studies presents Lesson Planet: Teaching Sustainability K-16 Educators Workshop

Dr. Sophia McClennen Dr. Sophia McClennen is an established scholar in the fields of globalization, human rights, and media studies. She has published 8 books and over 50 articles; she serves on 10 editorial boards and on executive committees for three scholarly associations. She has conducted research on education and international area studies, with particular attention to how multidisciplinary approaches enhance understanding of global issues. She teaches courses in cultures of globalization, human rights, cross-cultural conflict resolution, global media, the cultures of displaced peoples, cultural trade policy. Her courses in International Affairs focus on the connections between culture and globalization.

Dr. Richard Alley Dr. Richard Alley is a glaciologist with training in geology and materials science from Ohio State and Wisconsin. He studies the flow and stability of ice sheets, their climate records, and the way they interact with the landscape. Dr. Alley’s discovery that climate change can occur abruptly over decades, rather than over long time scales, and his ability to convey this to the public through his popular writing make him an important figure in climate change. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, several textbooks, and two popular books. e was the host of PBS’s three part series, Earth—The Operators’ Manual. A prolific researcher, Dr. Alley finds time to talk to school children as well as the media and to teach graduate and undergraduate geoscience course offerings at Penn State

Dr. Peter Buckland Peter Buckland works on academic programming at Penn State’s Sustainability Institute. He curates The Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability, coordinates special programs and presentations for sustainability and assists Dr. Susannah Barsom with the Sustainability Leadership minor, faculty development and co-teaching Foundations of Sustainability and Leadership. Peter has communicated widely on sustainability, environmental issues, education, and music in popular and peer-reviewed press ranging from Green Jobs for a New Economy, the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, Reviews of the National Center for Science Education, and the International Journal of Illich Studies.

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