SWEEC Announces Certificate in Environmental Education Leadership and Award Ceremony/ Celebration for Class of 2020-2022 Advisory Board Members
“Educate K-16 students on the unavoidable obligation of Environmental citizenship”.
The Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative represents a constellation of stakeholders supporting local and global environmental citizenship through the promotion of ecological literacy across academic institutions and communities in the Southwest region.
Mission Statement:
Educate K-16 students on the unavoidable obligation of Environmental citizenship.
The Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative proposes to generate an opensource multi-modal digital hub by sponsoring a variety of ecoliteracy initiatives, including conferences, colloquia, workshops, curriculum development, environmental writers-in-residence programs, new environmental literacies programs, eco-public art installations, community-based research, environmental diversity education, and community garden support in Southwest public education and local communities.
Vision Statement:
Our vision is a world where our common environment is restored through EcoLiteracy and action.
SWEEC seeks to catalyze an educational movement focused on enhancing environmental citizenship in academic and community-based settings. SWEEC will also work on constituting, curating, documenting, representing, invigorating, and archiving our collective journey toward a regenerative process of restoring and re-envisioning our shared environments.
What We Do
SWEEC promotes EcoLiteracy as the act of:
Exercising responsive habitat stewardship;
Engaging the restorative ecologies of human and more-than-human relationships within our everyday environments.
Cultivating environmental education leadership through community-engagement opportunities.
Organizational Statement
The Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative is a regional cross-institutional environmental education clearinghouse and social networking hub providing a digital platform for the Southwest Environmental Education Coalition (a 5013c non-profit organization) and other related public service projects.
Executive Director Michelle Hall Kells
Michelle Hall Kells is a professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico where she teaches courses in civil rights rhetoric, environmental justice, and language equality education. Her most recent books include Vicente Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric and a co-edited volume with Laura Gonzales, Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education Across Communities. Kells is currently working on several book projects including Women and the Mining of “The Salt of the Earth”: Public Rhetoric, Cultural Resistance, and Cold War Politic as well as a memoir, Ginny: An Archeology of Women, Writing, and Wilderness and an eco-poetry collection, The San Joaquin River Club.
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