Cindy Frantz's research while affiliated with Oberlin College and other places

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Early humans experienced intimate and continuous feedback from the natural world that informed and constrained decision-making and helped individuals see themselves as part of larger wholes. This experience and perspective has been undermined by cultural, economic and ecological transformation. Characterization of universities as “ivory towers” ref...
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Tackling complex environmental challenges requires the capacity to understand how relationships and interactions between parts result in dynamic behavior of whole systems. There has been convincing research that these "systems thinking" skills can be learned. However, there is little research on methods for teaching these skills to children or asse...
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Through the vast majority of human evolution our ancestors experienced intimate and continuous feedback from the natural world that informed and constrained individual and community decision-making. In the last two centuries fossil fuel use coupled with development of technologies for extracting, producing and consuming energy and materials have au...

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... Kemampuan berpikir sistem perlu dalam proses pemecahan masalah pembelajaran fisika. System Thinking atau cara berpikir sistem adalah salah satu pendekatan yang dapat digunakan untuk memandang persoalan yang ada dengan lebih menyeluruh, sehingga dalam pengambilan sebuah keputusan lebih terarah kepada sumber-sumber persoalan yang akan mengubah sistem secara efektif [8]. Berdasarkan uraian yang telah dipaparkan, maka dilakukan penelitian yang berjudul Implementasi PBL terintegrasi STEM dengan flipped classroom untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir sistem siswa SMA pada topik usaha dan energi. ...
... A dashboard's objective is to convert measured data into meaningful information for stakeholders (Marini, 2011). To be effective dashboard design have to match specific users (Marini, 2011;Petersen et al., 2017). An environmental dashboard designed for community education and awareness resulted in community-level energy and water savings . ...
... These systems, which are largely informed by social psychology, aim to reintroduce feedback at multiple scales to motivate and empower conservation, promote systems thinking, and build pro-environmental identity, at both individual and community levels (Petersen 2016). Petersen et al. (2014) argue that we can build more sustainable and resilient communities and cultures by engineering new information flows that realign our thinking and behavior with the realities of the ecosystems that support us. Peterson et al. (2016) has developed a variety of novel approaches focused on sociotechnical feedback systems that have the potential to reconnect humans to nature and motivate behaviors that are more attuned to ecological constraints and opportunities (Petersen, Frantz, Shammin 2014). ...