Andrew J. Schneller
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Office: CIS 210G
Phone: 518.580.8192
Email: aschnell@skidmore.edu
Personal website
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. The University of Arizona, Tucson, 2008. Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies 鈥� Focus on Environmental Learning. School of Natural Resources and the Environment 鈥� Focus on Environmental Policy
- MPA ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1997. School of Public and Environmental Affairs 鈥� Focus on Environmental Policy and Law
- BA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. University of Arizona, Tucson, 1995. Department of Geography and Regional Development
COURSES
- ES 100 Environmental Concerns in Perspective
- ES 221 Sustainable Development
- ES 252 Environmental Justice
- ES 305 Environmental Education
- ES 306 US Public Lands and Oceans: Policy, Law, Management and Current Events
- ES 352 Humanities Action Lab: Environmental Justice and Climate Change in the Capital Region
- ES 374 Research Capstone: Design and Methods
- ES 375 Research Capstone: Data Collection, Analysis, and Communication
PUBLICATIONS
Published manuscripts-
CONTRIBUTION AND ASSOCIATIONS
- EcoEducadores Verde y Azul, Todos Santos, B.C.S., M茅xico 鈥� Board member
- International Union for Conservation of Nature 鈥� Commission on Strategic Communication and Education 鈥� Active member and contributor
- Environmental Education Research - Current and active referee
- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Current and active referee
PRESENTATIONS
2011
- 6th World Environmental Education Congress, Brisbane, Australia. Schneller, A.J., Johnson, B.J. & Bogner, F.X. Using the Model of Ecological Values (2-MEV) to measure environmental attitudes in Mexico
- 3rd Meeting of the Mexican Chapter of the AFS and the Mexican Fisheries Society Mazatlan, Mexico. Schneller, A.J. & Casta帽eda Fern谩ndez de Lara, V. Assessment of the artisanal fisheries sector in the Bahia Magdalena region of Baja California Sur, Mexico: Social capital, sustainability, and community empowerment.
- 31st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. San Diego, California, USA. Schneller, A.J. & Baum, P.A. The Emergence of Associational Life in M茅xico鈥檚 Wild West: Pioneering Civic Participation, Sea Turtle Conservation, and Environmental Awareness in Baja California Sur (research paper presentation)
2010
- 5th International Symposium on Pacific Squid La Paz, Mexico. Schneller, A.J., Casta帽eda Fern谩ndez de Lara, V., Salinas Zavala, C.A., & Mej铆a Rebollo, A. Socio-economic characteristics of the uncommon Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) fishery of 2010 in Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico (research paper presentation)
- Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research. Istanbul, Turkey. Schneller, A.J. & Baum, P.A. The Emergence of Associational Life in M茅xico鈥檚 Wild West: Pioneering Civic Participation, Sea Turtle Conservation, and Environmental Awareness in Baja California Sur (research paper presentation)
- The 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences. Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. Schneller, A.J. & Irizarry, A. Imaging Conservation: Sea Turtle Murals and Community Environmental Consciousness and Behaviours in Baja California Sur, Mexico (research paper presentation)
- 12th Annual Reunion of the Grupo Tortuguero. Loreto, B.C.S., M茅xico. Schneller, A.J. & Baum, P.A. Funding, Environmental Education, and Outreach Opportunities for Enhancing the Sea Turtle Conservation Movement in Baja California Sur, Mexico (research and White Paper presentation)
AWARDS
- 2007 Erasmus Circle Scholar, The University Of Arizona
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
I have acquired a breadth of environmental knowledge, grounded in an academic foundation
in environmental education and policy, and supported by professional and field-based
research and teaching experiences in both the United States and Latin America. My
educational endeavors are designed to be interdisciplinary in nature as I seek to
acquire a broader understanding of how scholarship, pedagogy, field-based research,
and policy can effectively intersect. This set of competencies has provided me with
the tools and perspectives to instruct and mentor students, and engage them in evidenced
based, inspirational, meaningful, and experiential environmental learning. My students
report that they value this approach, as it contributes to both their environmental
understandings and guides them toward changes in their affective and behavioral domains.
I am interested in working with students, faculty, and public and private stakeholders
in assessing and designing solutions to local, national, and international environmental
issues. I have a dedicated interest in working with students in the field, internationally,
and on travel assignments throughout Latin America.
My instruction includes advancing an understanding of the value of dedication to service
to the community as well as educating for eco-justice and community. This approach
is perhaps most compatible with C.A. Bowers鈥� position that community-centered traditions
provide an alternative to efforts 鈥渢hat are now overshooting the long-term sustaining
capacity of the environment.鈥� Bower鈥檚 recommendations for the promotion of an eco-justice
curriculum imply that we, as instructors, have a greater set of responsibilities as
professionals and thus must work more intensively and thoughtfully to act as mediators
who affect and incorporate the learner, the community, and the environment. This teaching
philosophy first requires reflection and acknowledgment of the dominant social paradigm
that promotes hyperindividuality and a hyperconsumer culture. It is important therefore
to understand where in the curriculum education reproduces language and practice that
facilitates the culturally and environmentally destructive patterns of the dominant
social paradigm, and to address these issues accordingly.