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Gabriela Alonso-Yañez

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Learning and education in the context of sustainability and global change are the focus of her work. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding the factors and conditions that influence how teams produce integrated, action-oriented socioecological knowledge in a rapidly changing world. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in design thinking and project-based learning, interdisciplinary research, and formative assessment. Over the last 10 years, she have participated in several collaborative research projects with multiple aims, including: to build researchers’ and organizations’ capacity for collaboration; to engage stakeholders in co-designing and co-producing solutions-oriented knowledge; and to aid teams to develop networks of mutual learning. She has a BS in psychology and completed graduate studies in Curriculum and Implementation at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

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Learning and education in the context of sustainability and global change are the focus of her work. Specifically, her research focuses on understanding the factors and conditions that influence how teams produce integrated, action-oriented socioecological knowledge in a rapidly changing world. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in design thinking and project-based learning, interdisciplinary research, and formative assessment. Over the last 10 years, she have participated in several collaborative research projects with multiple aims, including: to build researchers’ and organizations’ capacity for collaboration; to engage stakeholders in co-designing and co-producing solutions-oriented knowledge; and to aid teams to develop networks of mutual learning. She has a BS in psychology and completed graduate studies in Curriculum and Implementation at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

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