2024

Education for Sustainability

Name: Education for Sustainability
Code: PED01611L
2.5 ECTS
Duration: 8 weeks/65 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Understand and apply in different contexts, the concepts of environment, environmental education and sustainable development.

Meet the comprehensive, systemic and complex environmental problems, evaluating our responsibility in their resolution.

Linking prior knowledge to build sustainability projects in different areas, including in education.

Contents

Sustainable development as a global and a local environmental strategy. The genesis of the concept, its evolution and its current importance.

Education for sustainability, as a global perspective in the environmental education domain.

Education for the reduction of production and consumption, reuse and recycling.

Development of projects, within the education for sustainability domain, in the school context.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, field trip, presentation of papers, tutorial teaching.
Evaluation of group work and individual reports through their assessments and discussions. Written test for the final examination option.