Quotes from the episode

We became much more aware and knowledgeable about what place-based learning means to other people and other groups.
-Amy Sprowles

Place-based learning rests on the power of immersing students, faculty and staff in the place and recognizing the heritage, culture, landscape, geography, plants, animals and rocks and how those things interact with each other to illustrate to students how so many disciplines are interconnected.
-Matt Johnson

You cannot talk about the place without talking about the Indigenous people that have been there since time immemorial.
-Matt Johnson

Quotes from the episode

It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.
-Jennifer Wilking

One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.
-Jennifer Wilking

Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.
-Jennifer Wilking

Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.
-Jennifer Wilking