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“Settling and Unsettling Spaces: Environmental History & PEI”

Community, Events, Latest News // 12.02.2010

“Settling and Unsettling Spaces: Environmental History & PEI”

From 7-25 June, the University of PEI is offering “Settling and Unsettling Spaces: Environmental History & PEI” an intensive, three-week course in the field. Upper-level undergraduates and Master’s students will draw from a range of disciplines in lectures, seminars, and primary research. They will also investigate the Island behind the tourism brochures, through field trips that explore how PEI’s environment and communities have changed over time.

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Alternatives Journal – Call for Queries: Innovation in Education

Call for Papers, Community, Latest News // 10.02.2010

Alternatives Journal – Call for Queries: Innovation in Education

How has environmental education changed in today’s increasingly
accessible world? What should be a part of every person’s educational background, but currently isn’t? How do applied skills such as farming, gardening, and building complement more theoretical environmental learning methods? Alternatives Journal is looking for articles for the next annual Education issue, and we invite you to submit story ideas that explore every angle of environmental education.

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Call for Papers: 3rd Biannual Conference of The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, Culture– Australia and New Zealand

Call for Papers, Community, Events, Latest News // 10.02.2010

Call for Papers: 3rd Biannual Conference of  The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, Culture–  Australia and New Zealand

ASLEC-ANZ invites papers, performances, photo/phonographics—on music, language, sound, the earth—that reflect the multiversity of human and non-human worlds; that investigate music’s power as intrinsic language to ‘transcend social and cultural barriers’; that examine the process of remixing, recycling, renewing in sound and the environment.

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Children’s Health and the Environment: International Workshop on Research, Policy and Practice

Call for Papers, Community, Events, Latest News // 08.02.2010

Children’s Health and the Environment: International Workshop on Research, Policy and Practice

The physical environment plays a vital role in child health and development. Safe and sturdy shelter, engaging play spaces, stimulating learning environments, well-connected neighbourhood pathways, vibrant public spaces, and protected natural environments all contribute to the growth, education, and healthy development of children. This event aims to provide an effective forum for knowledge exchange and mobilization among
leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with healthy environments for children and youth.

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