2024
Education for the Environment: from fundamentals to action
Name: Education for the Environment: from fundamentals to action
Code: PAO10045O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Environment and Ecology Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
Environmental Education teaching, toward the development of an environmental culture that drives the building of the ecological subject as an individual able to interpret the world and the global changes, to express critical sense and to perform actions engaged with an ecocentric sustainability.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- Relate the diversity of representations and concepts of Environment and Nature to different proposals for Environmental Education.
- Explore the concept(s) of sustainability and its importance in education.
- Understand the ethical, conceptual and methodological foundations that support different approaches to Environmental Education.
- Recognize the inter and transdisciplinary nature of Environmental Education and the importance of continuity processes.
- Recognize the global, systemic and complex nature of natural phenomena and contemporary environmental problems in its relation to society, culture and politics.
- Expand environmental and ecological culture, namely through contact with case studies in different socio-ecological contexts and through critical discussion with colleagues and other UC actors.
- Identify environmental problems and analyze them in an inter and trans disciplinary perspective
- Design and implement projects in the field of Environmental Education.
- Explore the concept(s) of sustainability and its importance in education.
- Understand the ethical, conceptual and methodological foundations that support different approaches to Environmental Education.
- Recognize the inter and transdisciplinary nature of Environmental Education and the importance of continuity processes.
- Recognize the global, systemic and complex nature of natural phenomena and contemporary environmental problems in its relation to society, culture and politics.
- Expand environmental and ecological culture, namely through contact with case studies in different socio-ecological contexts and through critical discussion with colleagues and other UC actors.
- Identify environmental problems and analyze them in an inter and trans disciplinary perspective
- Design and implement projects in the field of Environmental Education.
Contents
1.Nature and environment
Perceptions and concept (s) of Nature and Environment
Relationship of the human species with ?Nature?
Nature: from life support to the spiritual dimension.The importance of Nature. Biophilia. The Gaia
hypothesis.
Ethics and Nature.
2.Contemporary environmental issues
The environmental crises
Threats and global changes
The social ecology
3.Mission and strategies for Environmental Education
Visions: from anthropocene to ecocene ...
Policies and citizenship
Basic rules, European Agenda, Treaties and Agreements.
4.Education for Sustainability (ES) and Environmental Education (EA)Common points, divergences and specificities
5.Paths in and for Environmental Education
Ecofeminism
The delicate empiricism
?The forest schools?
Eco-schools
Others
6.Building projects in environmental education and raising of an ecological person.
Perceptions and concept (s) of Nature and Environment
Relationship of the human species with ?Nature?
Nature: from life support to the spiritual dimension.The importance of Nature. Biophilia. The Gaia
hypothesis.
Ethics and Nature.
2.Contemporary environmental issues
The environmental crises
Threats and global changes
The social ecology
3.Mission and strategies for Environmental Education
Visions: from anthropocene to ecocene ...
Policies and citizenship
Basic rules, European Agenda, Treaties and Agreements.
4.Education for Sustainability (ES) and Environmental Education (EA)Common points, divergences and specificities
5.Paths in and for Environmental Education
Ecofeminism
The delicate empiricism
?The forest schools?
Eco-schools
Others
6.Building projects in environmental education and raising of an ecological person.
Teaching Methods
Methodologies will prioritize student reflection and participation through the analysis of valid texts, performances and other resources, with collaborative exploration of their content in its various dimensions. Problem-solving activities invite students to analyze real problems (based on information presentation) and envision/imagine sustainable futures to address problems and enrich perspectives through classroom discussions.
The aim is to foster well-founded criticism, develop environmental culture and mobilize creativity in individual development and in an action research context. Field visits are also encouraged, as a methodology for exploration and connection with locations in nearby natural landscapes.
The aim is to foster well-founded criticism, develop environmental culture and mobilize creativity in individual development and in an action research context. Field visits are also encouraged, as a methodology for exploration and connection with locations in nearby natural landscapes.
Assessment
The assessment will be carried out in the Continuous modality, based on interim work organized in an individual cartography (40%) and in the final work of an individual or paired environmental education project, guided by the teacher(s), subject to a presentation and discussion to all members of the group/class. The final project work will represent 60% of the overall assessment.
Teachers will provide ongoing feedback on student projects, and initial, midterm, and final classroom presentations will provide the opportunity for students? self and hetero-evaluation of the learning process
Final assessment: Oral and written presentation of project (100%).
Teachers will provide ongoing feedback on student projects, and initial, midterm, and final classroom presentations will provide the opportunity for students? self and hetero-evaluation of the learning process
Final assessment: Oral and written presentation of project (100%).
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