co-investigator

Patrick Howard

Professor, Education, Cape Breton University

Patrick Howard developed his interest in the intersections between issues of sustainability and education during a twenty plus-year career teaching high school in coastal communities on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.

His research and writing explores how our defining human abilities; creativity, language, and imagination are mediums by which we may grow in relationship with the living places we inhabit. A common theme of his work is how teaching and learning can deepen the human-nonhuman interrelationship to provide a vital, dynamic vision of education based on life values. His research has been published widely in national and international journals. Dr. Howard is also an associate editor of the open-source journal Phenomenology & Practice.