Walking at the Margins of the Anthropocene: A Novel Curriculum to Enhance Sustainability Learning and Teaching

We explored the walking pedagogy presented on six occasions to various disciplines to ground and contextualize abstract concepts surrounding the Anthropocene to enhance student learning in the broad area of sustainability. In this process, we facilitated the translation of wicked global problems of sustainability into tangible issues within a local context in order to root participants with an explicit sense of place and facilitate a potentially transformative experience. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) served as a useful heuristic for critical exploration of connections between individual participants and their surrounding environment. The complexity and interconnectedness of the SDGs were discussed with participants in the context of local water quality, biodiversity, land use practices, innovation, urban renewal, and cultural issues.