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Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable Development

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  • Joshua M. Pearce

    (Joshua M. Pearce is an Assistant Professor of renewable energy engineering at the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Email: pearce@me.queensu.ca)

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Numerous studies have demonstrated that university students are capable of contributing to sustainable development while improving their academic skills. Unfortunately for many institutions, the expense of sending large cohorts of students on international service learning trips is prohibitive. Yet, students remain enthusiastic and well equipped to assist in sustainable development. This article reports on two pedagogical experiments in service learning that overcame this challenge by providing solutions to sustainable development problems using Appropedia.org, the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development. The course successfully used Appropedia (1) as a forum for students who were geographically dispersed, (2) for a whole-class writing collaboration, (3) to coordinate a sustainability-focussed outreach campaign to retrofit stop lights in communities throughout Pennsylvania and (4) to review class material with application to technologies for sustainable development.

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  • Joshua M. Pearce, 2009. "Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable Development," Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, , vol. 3(1), pages 45-53, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jousus:v:3:y:2009:i:1:p:45-53
    DOI: 10.1177/097340820900300112
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    1. Robert G. Bringle & Julie A. Hatcher, 1996. "Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 67(2), pages 221-239, March.
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    1. Joshua Pearce, 2012. "The case for open source appropriate technology," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 425-431, June.
    2. Pilar Aramburuzabala & Rosario Cerrillo, 2023. "Service-Learning as an Approach to Educating for Sustainable Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-13, July.
    3. I. Zelenika & J. Pearce, 2014. "Innovation through collaboration: scaling up solutions for sustainable development," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 16(6), pages 1299-1316, December.

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