Public Scholarship Student Projects for Introductory Environmental Courses
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Background: Education For Environmental Public Scholarship Public scholarship is scholarship that is used to inform public debate of the issues we face as a society. Likewise, education for public scholarship connects classroom concepts to societal issues and helps students act as educated citizens within a democracy. This is especially important for environmental issues given the urgent and complex nature of these issues. For more, see the Pennsylvania State University Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy, http://www.publicscholarship.psu.edu.
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