Work-in-Progress

Educating for Laudato Si': Engineering for Integral Ecology

Thu
Mar
21

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Work-in-Progress Seminars are designed to generate in-depth discussion of new scholarly work. For the pre-circulated paper and to attend, please register with the link below. Room location information will be shared with preparation materials following your registration.

Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE
Kellogg Visiting Fellow

The goal of this research project is to write a book focusing on the theme of Engineering Education for Integral Ecology, in the spirit of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’. The intended audience of the book includes Catholic educators in institutions of higher learning, especially those in interdisciplinary studies, engineering, and theology; practitioners of integral human development; directors of evangelization; seminary formators; and perhaps high school teachers, catechists or missionaries. The book intends to address the urgent need to put into practice integral ecology as envisioned by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’¸ in conversation with the broader literature and practice of integral human development (IHD). It also seeks to propose principles and practices for revivifying engineering education in the spirit of integral ecology, as little literature currently exists in this area.


Speakers / Related People
Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE

Sr. Damien Marie Savino is a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist and serves as the Dean of Science and Sustainability at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her research interests include theology and science, ecology and theology, ecological restoration, and resilience theory...
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