Browsing by Subject "Co-design"

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    A Curriculum of Resilience: Increasing Personal Resilience through Environmental Education
    (2023-04-27) McCollum, Aurora
    As more communities feel the impacts of climate change, the field of environmental education (EE) has been incorporating climate change topics into EE curriculum. One such topic, resilience, has begun to emerge. Most EE resilience activities focus on ecological resilience rather than personal resilience, even though both of these concepts are deeply intertwined with climate change. This paper explores a case study of resilience in EE that explicitly connects personal and ecological resilience via a middle school resilience curriculum co-created by researchers, resilience practitioners, and educators in coastal North Carolina. This curriculum blends personal and ecological resilience concepts using activities including storytelling. This study examines how teachers responded to the co-created curriculum writing process and the resulting resilience curriculum. Specifically, we asked, 1. What were teachers' perspectives on the challenges and benefits of the co-creation curriculum design experience? 2. What were teachers’ perspectives on the challenges and benefits of teaching the interdisciplinary resilience curriculum? Our initial results identified four themes of teacher-identified benefits and five themes of teacher-identified challenges of resilience curriculum and curriculum design experience. Benefits include themes like meeting a distinct local need and engaging with like-minded professionals. Challenges include themes like the difficulty of navigating middle school identities when trying to be vulnerable and students knowing the right answers but having trouble applying those answers to their personal lives. We will use these preliminary findings to iterate and improve on the curriculum and design process to better serve the teachers and students in this area.
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    A Feasibility Assessment of a Traumatic Brain Injury Predictive Modelling Tool at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and Duke University Hospital
    (2020) O'Leary, Paige

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common cause of death and disability globally. TBI is a leading cause of resource consumption and disproportionately affects LMICs. Innovative solutions are required to address this high burden of TBI. Prognostic models could provide a solution since the models enhance diagnostic ability of physicians, thereby helping to tailor treatments more effectively. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of a prognostic model developed in Tanzania for TBI patients amongst Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) healthcare providers and Duke affiliated healthcare providers. Duke health system participants were included primarily to gain insight from a different context with more established practices to inform the TBI tool implementation strategy at KCMC. To evaluate the feasibility of integrating the TBI tool into potential workflows co-design interviews were conducted with emergency physicians and nursing staff. Qualitatively, the tool was assessed using human centered design (HCD) techniques. Our research design methods were created using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research which considers overarching characteristics of successful implementation to contribute to theory development and verification of implementation strategies across multiple contexts. Findings of this study will aid in determining under what conditions a TBI prognostic model intervention will work at KCMC and the potential use of HCD in implementation research.