Project Description
Environmental education (EE) in the primary education is important, but different geographic settings, such as the urban and rural area may need different design of EE. Furthermore, various geographic and socio-economic factors, such as income may result in different outcomes of EE. This project focuses on how urban settings like the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area affect EE and how EE in Milwaukee is run differently in different schools based on socio-economic factors. To investigate, we plan to conduct ten to fifteen in-depth interviews with school teachers who teach EE and other related organizations such as Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee to ask about the issues and problems they have faced and suggestions for better EE in Milwaukee metro area. We also plan to analyze the locations of the schools they work to find the relations between socio-economic and geographic factors.
Tasks and Responsibilites
The student will conduct more in-depth interviews and transcribe the interviews. Then the advisor and the student will analyze the interview results together and write the academic research article together. To complete this project, the faculty will supervise the project from the beginning to the end. In short, the most important student tasks are collecting data through in-depth interviews and official statistics provided by the City of Milwaukee about EE.