Thinking About Change: What Do We Know, What Can We Do?

Original date: February 1, 2012

Presenter: Richard Kool

Description: Change, be it emotional, spiritual, cognitive and/or behavioural, is something that educators are concerned about and work towards. But what do we know about the various ways in which change comes about? Why is change in some contexts so hard, and why in other contexts does it seem to be so easy? Does knowledge lead to change, or does change lead to knowledge? This webinar will attempt to open up some thinking about the nature of change and its relationship to the work we do as environmental educators and communicators.

Suitability:  All formal and non-formal youth educators

Richard Kool has an MSc in Zoology from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Brigham Young University. He has been a secondary school science teacher on Vancouver Island, a biology and ecology instructor at a Douglas College in New Westminster BC, and a post-secondary instructor at both the University of Victoria and now as an Associate Professor at Royal Roads University. He has also worked outside the formal education system, managing the public programs department at the Royal BC Museum and developing environmental education and park interpretation programs for the British Columbia Government.