Description:
With support from The Teaching & Learning Commons and the Office of Sustainability.
Join biologist and educator Bridget McClarty as she explores how a sense of awe influences our relationship with the more-than-human world, and how the more-than-human world allows us to nurture our sense of awe.
Bio:
Bridget McClarty is a faculty member at BCIT's Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation program and a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University. She has taught place-based programs at secondary and post-secondary schools for almost 20 years, and when she is not teaching, she can often be found walking outside with her dog friend. Bridget loves being both a teacher and a student of nature.
Wild Spaces is an interdisciplinary teaching and research group at KPU focused on ecological place-based education. Two of our priorities are decolonization and accessibility.