SEFS Emeritus Professor Dr. Kristiina Vogt and UW colleagues Dr. Samantha De Abreu and Dr. Maria Blancas are working to understand how using holistic storytelling practices common among Indigenous communities could improve environmental science education. Vogt was featured in a Scientia article and SciPod podcast on her belief that teaching students about the interconnected nature of the many elements of life on Earth would better equip them to address both present and future environmental challenges.
The researchers worked with a team of educators, including an environmental scientist, an environmental scholar and former chairperson of an Indigenous Tribe, an Indigenous storyteller and elder, an environmental scholar and Indigenous community leader, two environmental social scientists, an information scientist, a high-school teacher, and graduate students specializing in environmental science and policy to devise a course offered to upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students of any discipline.