Children in urban environments tend to have limited exposure to environmental education programs for many reasons. This paper describes the development of a short-session after-school program, created to introduce children in an inner-city school to the concept of urban ecology. In this program, we met with a class of 20 fifth graders once a week…

As a higher education professional and soon to be doctoral student, studying to become an urban youth and community guru, it has become increasingly clear that re-educating our inner city youth is key. However, before the re-education of the youth can occur, there must be a time of re-education and better preparation for teaching professionals.…