Aaron Kadoch Doctoral Student in Educational Sustainability
Aaron.Kadoch@uwsp.edu Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Master’s of Architecture: The Frank Lloyd School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona B.A. Fine Arts (International Studies minor), Davidson College
SCHOLAR MENTOR (EDSU 918) Joy O’Neil, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Sustainability Education, Prescott College UW-Stevens Point Director, Educational Sustainability Doctoral Program Assistant Professor 715-346-3292 (office) joneil@uwsp.edu
Expertise: social and ecological sustainability, environmental science, language and culture, intra-actional pedagogies, program and curriculum development, systems thinking, relational learning, post structuralist research, transformative learning theory, adult learning theory, and sustainable food and water systems APPLIED RESIDENCY PROJECT (EDSU 919) Recycling Connections: A nonprofit connecting people, resources, and communities to promote waste reduction, reuse, recycling and resource conservation. In the applied residency, I will be working with the community of recycling and waste practitioners and systems, at the UWSP recycling center and with Marathon County Solid Waste Facility to collect industry-specific field data. The data will be analyzed for its educational functionality, systemic knowledge gaps, and possible interventions. Recycling Connections 1100 Main Street-Ste 120 PO Box 91 Stevens Point, WI 54481 715-343-0722 Type of Research Intervention: This research will follow a phenomenological-metabolic and semiotic methodology resulting in a documentary-style process. I will observe people and production/ consumption/waste practices in their normal routines at work or home or in public, as people interact with material products. I will ask people to describe their interactions as they are happening. They will be photographed and/or video recorded, so that later, the data can be re-assembled into a media-based interactive-educational tool towards the crafting of an eco-language of and for material “Waste.” Brief Explanation of Project: I am conducting research about material products, their life cycle, and post-consumer life. The purposes of the research is to better understand how humans interact with consumer products, how they think about them, and how humans share a relationship with material waste streams, as consumers and producers of waste. The goal is to seek alternate and sustainable forms of communication about and for material interactions between environments and people.
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UW-Stevens Point Ed.D. in Educational Sustainability
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