For undergraduate mathematical modeling courses, a successful semester project can reinforce key learning objectives while enabling creativity and developing critical thinking skills. However, course directors often struggle in novel ideas balancing the tradeoff between grading burden complexity. At U.S Military Academy, we take an open-ended discovery-learning approach to freshman level math p...

This book review offers Norma Romm’s intimate read of Hilary Bradbury`s new How to Do Action Research for Transformations at a Time Eco-Social Crisis (Bradbury, 2022). Much more than simple re-narration the main points book, Romm`s serves as an account her personal engagement and dialogue with Bradbury’s work, both in resonance appreciation also times challenging very personally-informed experi...

In December I travelled to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP). I did not attend any of the ocial meetings in the Bella Center, where the conference was based, but rather participated outside the conference in a range of protest activities directed against the actions (and more importantly the inactions) of the ocial parties. ere is much to be said about the protes...

In this paper, we report the design of a simulated disaster management exercise that is used to explore the manner in which teams of emergency responders make sense of unfamiliar, dynamic situations. The paper develops a notion of sensemaking that combines semantic (i.e., extracting meaning from cues in the environment) and pragmatic (i.e., recognising opportunities for courses of action). This...