For this presentation, Dr. Nolan will highlight some of his research and show how using the Four Quadrants model as a heuristic in the teaching of urgent, open-ended, and ill-structured issues like climate change can create transformational insight that reveals etic-to-emic shifts in perspective, individual and collective critical reflections, and holistic orientations to problem-solving. In a framework he calls socioscientific perspectives, Dr. Nolan will showcase some of his findings from a study he conducted that looked at college students’ informal reasoning in their understanding and learning of climate change. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the integral community on the developmental nature of the findings, and how to further create educational opportunities that apply Integral Theory in meaningful and personally-relevant ways.

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Dr. Eric Nolan is an educational researcher at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, CA working in the fields of science education, environmental education, and climate change education. He and his research team provide quality and meaningful educational experiences for secondary and post-secondary teachers and students throughout the East Bay. Dr. Nolan’s research specializes in transformational learning by using Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrant’s model as applied to socioscientific issues such as climate change (imperative issues that intersect with science and society).