INS 9: Vital Connections: Engaging Professional Societies with the 4DEE Framework

Session Organizer(s)

• Kenneth Klemow

  Biology, Wilkes University
  Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA

Moderator(s)

• Kenneth Klemow

  Biology, Wilkes University
  Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA

Volunteer(s)

• Adounke Mahugnon Gilles Renaud

  wildlife Ecology, Laboratory of Applied Ecology
  Abomey Calavi, Benin

In 2018, ESA’s Governing Board adopted the Four Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework as a guide for teaching ecology at undergraduate and graduate levels.  4DEE also provides core ideas for professional development and certification and supports outreach and informal education efforts. Up until now, the proponents of 4DEE have focused their effort on ESA members.  But now is the time to expand 4DEE beyond that population.  This session invites representatives from peer societies to discuss: 1) how 4DEE can benefit ecology education for their own members, and 2) how the four dimensional approach might be adapted to their discipline. Presenters from seven biological and education-oriented societies will share how their organizations are aligning with 4DEE goals.  Included will be a discussion about the ways in which innovations in education research can help advance 4DEE. The ideas and discussion generated by this session will help form a vision and growing constituency for broad application of 4DEE.

Presentations:

• ON DEMAND

  Connecting to SABER to advance 4DEE teaching
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer L. Momsen – Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University
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  Emerging towards a more diverse community of freshwater scientists, using the 4DEE framework
  

  Presenting Author: J. Checo Colon-Gaud – Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University
• ON DEMAND

  Growing the role of ecology with sustainability in higher education: 4DEE and AASHE
  

  Presenting Author: Leanne Jablonski – University of Dayton Hanley Sustainability Institute, Marianist Environmental Education Center
• ON DEMAND

  Interpreting the Four Dimensional Ecology Education Framework from a science education research perspective
  

  Presenting Author: Troy Sadler – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• ON DEMAND

  The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, ESA and 4DEE: Opportunities for mutual collaboration
  

  Presenting Author: Valerie Banschbach – Gustavus Adolphus College
• ON DEMAND

  The Society for Conservation Biology and the 4DEE framework: Opportunities and challenges
  

  Presenting Author: Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao – University of Washington