STREAM: A Theory of Community-Led Engagement for Health, Wellness, and Healing
摘要
Edward Lawson and Sarah Wyman demonstrate that engaging communities who have full power and agency in design and decision-making provides an opportunity to focus on aspects of sustainability—health, wellness, and healing—in a way that is fully transparent and inclusive. Traditionally, environmental movements and initiatives have not featured all voices and perspectives. As such, environmental advocacy priorities and activism have not always been ethically responsible nor responsive to the needs, interests, concerns, hopes, dreams, and aspirations of the community. By placing community at the center of socially transformative work, those directly affected can rightfully insist and ensure, Nothing about us without us. To reduce health disparities that result from injustice and other social determinants of health, communities must have the environmental and social justice literacy to understand research findings as well as full access to information generated about them. Lawson and Wyman present a STREAM theory of engagement that integrates science and art curriculum with aspects of relationship, relevance, resilience, recreation, and regeneration. They describe two sustainability education activities: 3D mapping to create an asset map and avoid damage-centered research (Shorters; Tuck); and an informal STREAM learning experience at a student-built Habitat for Artists where learners practice construction skills then use measurements to assess their earth art sculpture and write data-informed poetry in a community garden.