Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 11 of 18

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2015

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Brief excerpt from interview: The local students will usually bring up the local perspective in class—and I'll bring it up, too—some of the issues are contentious. Say, geothermal power. Some in the Hawaiian community are against it, some are for it. Siting wind farms is a problem, but that's also national and global . . . a 'not in my back yard' kind of thing . . . So in class, we have a local perspective, a national perspective, and international students bring the international perspective. Our island environment has some unique challenges that are brought to bear. And often we talk about importation of our food. Our food has to travel 2,000 miles to get here. And we get 90% of our food from the mainland. And most of our energy is imported in the form of petroleum. And that's an acute awareness that this class arrives at by the end of it.

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This item includes a segment of an an instructor interview in a Writing Intensive course in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The interview was conducted in 2013 and in this clip the interviewee is describing challenges local students may face in this course.

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place-based writing, writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, Writing Intensive courses, scholarship of teaching and learning, writing pedagogy, general education requirements, identity, kind of learning, educational context, sense of place, identity, community needs, audience, renewable energy, water rights, development, permitting, hydroelectric power plants, wind turbines, community involvement, group projects, UH Manoa, Waimanalo, North Shore, Oahu, feasibility, proposals, pursuing projects post-semester, campus facilities department, local students, neighborhood perspective, grounding students, making coursework more real

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Turano, Brian. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 11 of 18.' Interview with Jim Henry and Dawne Bost. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.

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Duration: 00:01:55

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Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences 236: Renewable Energy

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