Table Of ContentINTERDISCIPLINARY
PLACE-BASED
LEARNING IN
URBAN EDUCATION
Exploring Virtual Worlds
Edited by
Reneta D. Lansiquot
Sean P. MacDonald
Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning
in Urban Education
Reneta D. Lansiquot · Sean P. MacDonald
Editors
Interdisciplinary
Place-Based Learning
in Urban Education
Exploring Virtual Worlds
Editors
Reneta D. Lansiquot Sean P. MacDonald
New York City College of Technology New York City College of Technology
The City University of New York Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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C
ontents
1 Introduction: A Model for Interdisciplinary Place-Based
Learning 1
Reneta D. Lansiquot and Sean P. MacDonald
2 The Varieties of Place-Based Education 17
Laureen Park
3 The Solar Decathlon: Team DURA and Interdisciplinary
Place-Based Learning 39
Paul C. King
4 Cyclonic Pedagogy: Learning Interdisciplinary Lessons
from a Hybrid Storm 65
Reginald A. Blake and Janet Liou-Mark
5 From Local to Global: The Role of Interdisciplinary
Place-Based Research in Teaching Environmental
Economics 89
Sean P. MacDonald
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6 Visualizing Medicine: Mapping Connections with Plague
Inc. to Learn in the Interdisciplinary Classroom 111
Sandra Cheng, Aida L. Egues and Gwen Cohen-Brown
7 Modeling Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning in
Virtual Worlds: Lessons Learned and Suggestions
for the Future 133
Tamrah D. Cunningham and Reneta D. Lansiquot
Index 147
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ditors and ontributors
About the Editors
Reneta D. Lansiquot is Professor and Program Director of the
Bachelor of Science in Professional and Technical Writing at New York
City College of Technology of the City University of New York, where
she earned an A.A.S. in Computer Information Systems and a B.Tech
in Computer Systems. She earned a M.S. in Integrated Digital Media
at Polytechnic University and a Ph.D. in Educational Communication
and Technology at New York University. Her research focuses on inter-
disciplinary studies. Her first book is entitled Cases on Interdisciplinary
Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:
Studies on Urban Classrooms. Her recent books are Interdisciplinary
Pedagogy for STEM: A Collaborative Case Study and Technology, Theory,
and Practice in Interdisciplinary STEM Programs: Connecting STEM and
Non-STEM Approaches.
Sean P. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Economics at New York City
College of Technology of the City University of New York. She earned a B.A.
in Sociology from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Economics
from the New School for Social Research. She was a fellow in an NEH grant,
Making Connections: Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology
and fourth-year fellow in the United States Department of Education Title
V Grant, A Living Laboratory: Revitalizing General Education for a twenty-
first Century College of Technology. In addition to publishing papers on the
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2008–2009 financial crisis, she has worked on several collaborative interdisci-
plinary projects including designing content for student modules on GIS for
the NEH Grant, A Cultural History of Digital Technology.
Contributors
Reginald A. Blake is Professor of Physics at New York City College
of Technology of the City University of New York. He is a geophysi-
cist who serves on the New York City Panel on Climate Change, and
as a NoAA-CREST scientist. He is a member of the Climate Change
Impacts team at NASA-GISS, Columbia University, and he directs the
Center for Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences. Dr. Blake has
secured grant funding as Principal Investigator or Co-PI from the NSF
(REU, oEDG, IUSE), NoAA, NASA, and DoD. He is the Director of
the Black Male Initiative Program, and he has published and presented
extensively on climate change impacts, satellite and ground-based remote
sensing, and on promoting STEM education for underrepresented
minority students.
Sandra Cheng is Associate Professor of Art History at New York City
College of Technology of the City University of New York. She has been
the recipient of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Jane and Morgan
Whitney Fellowship and the Library of Congress’ Swann Foundation
for Caricature and Cartoon Fellowship. Recent publications include
“The Monstrous Portrait: Caricature, Physiognomy, and Monsters in
Early Modern Italy,” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on
the Preternatural, and “Silent Protest and the Art of Paper Folding:
The Golden Venture Paper Sculptures at the Museum of the Chinese
in the Americas” in Locating American Art: Finding Art’s Meaning in
Museums. Her research interests include drawing and studio practice, sci-
entific practice, and automata in Early Modern Europe.
Gwen Cohen-Brown is Professor in the Dental Hygiene Department
of New York City College of Technology, CUNY, a licensed Dentist in
New York State and a Fellow in the Academy of oral and Maxillofacial
Pathology. Dr. Brown is the Dental Expert for WebMD and faculty at
the NY/NJ AIDS Education and Training Center. She is a member of
the Dental Standards of Care Committee charged with writing the the
the current HIV Clinical Guidelines Program for the NYSDoH/AIDS
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Institute with Johns Hopkins. She authored the current monograph and
national standard of care on oral Lesions in HIV Seropositive Patients
for the AIDS Institute. Since 1992, Dr. Brown has lectured and pub-
lished extensively on the topic of HIV/AIDS, Common oral Lesions,
Infection Control, Zika, and oral Cancer.
Tamrah D. Cunningham is an adjunct Professor at New York City
College of Technology of the City University of New York where she
earned a B.Tech in Computer Systems. She earned an MFA in Game
Design at New York University. Her research interests include narrative
studies and world-building in role-playing games, particularly Japanese
RPGs. She has designed several games, most recently, Everlasting
Unemployment, a choice-based adventure game parodying the struggles of
finding employment after graduating from college. She is currently work-
ing on a mobile game that will educate its players on chronic child illness.
Aida L. Egues is Associate Professor of Nursing at New York City
College of Technology of the City University of New York. A Fellow in
the New York Academy of Medicine, she is a certified nurse educator,
a board-certified public health clinical nurse specialist, and a board-cer-
tified advanced public health nurse, licensed in New Jersey, New York,
and Pennsylvania. She is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed
published author, consultant, and presenter. Her multiple local, regional,
and national awards and federal grants have recognized her expertise in
community program planning and evaluation, curriculum design, ethi-
cal conduct, health disparities, licensure processes, the mentoring of
minority nurses, mentoring in general, nursing research, and professional
development.
Paul C. King is Associate Professor of Architectural Technology at New
York City College of Technology (City Tech) of the City University of
New York. He began his career as an Architect, Landscape Architect, and
Urban Planner after graduating from the City College of New York in
1983. He began teaching at City Tech in 1988 where his varied expertise
allowed him to teach a range of courses from Design Studio to Building
Technology to Design to Build. In 2015, he was one of two lead faculty
members in City Tech’s entry in the Department of Energy’s Bi-Annual
Solar Decathlon Competition which required his team to design, build
and defend their house at a public exhibition where it was evaluated in
the decathlon’s 10 categories.
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Janet Liou-Mark is Professor of Mathematics and Director of the
Honors Scholars Program at New York City College of Technology
of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on
the Peer-Led Team Learning instructional model has won her the
2011 CUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Mathematics Instruction. Dr. Liou-Mark is the recipient of several fed-
eral and foundation grants. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator
of the Math Science Partnership (MSP), Research Experience for
Undergraduate (REU), and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
(IUSE): Pathways into Geoscience NSF grants. Dr. Liou-Mark has men-
tored over 125 underrepresented minority students; a third are continu-
ing or obtaining advanced degrees. She organizes and speaks at women's
conferences in Malawi, Africa, and builds libraries there.
Laureen Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Social Science
Department of New York City College of Technology (City Tech) of
the City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy
from the New School for Social Research. She has broad experience in
pedagogy and place-based learning, including in research, teaching, and
as a former coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at City Tech.
She developed an analytical method based on Hegel’s Phenomenology and
Freudian psychoanalysis in her book, Arché and Telos, and has applied
such a method in analyzing empirical topics in a variety of presentations
and articles, including the topics of conflict, narcissism, and interdiscipli-
narity.
