2024
Living, Inquiring and Knowing: outdoor practices for sustainability
Name: Living, Inquiring and Knowing: outdoor practices for sustainability
Code: PAO15152O
6 ECTS
Duration: 5 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Arte Multimédia, Artes Plásticas, Biological Sciences, Education Sciences, Landscape and Planning Sciences, Environment and Ecology Sciences, Culture, Philosophy, Geography, History, History of the Art, Linguistics, Human Kinetics , Music, Psychology, Sociology, Teatro
Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Learn about the pillars of sustainability
Know about the theoretical and practical basis of Outdoor transformative learning and Placemaking pedagogy and research;
Embody sustainability and its values including supporting fairness and cultural significance, and promoting nature and wellbeing through outdoor experiences;
??Embrace complexity using systems thinking, critical thinking, creativity and problem framing to envision sustainable futures;
?Adopt a relational way of thinking, considering the connections between humans and more than humans by exploring and linking different disciplines (also in a creative way).
Collaborate with other individuals by designing common goals and negotiating actions to support life in all its dimensions, including the other than human;
?Design relevant and viable eco-social projects, engaging inclusive (both collective and individual) initiatives using different languages and media to support and develop transformative learning.
Know about the theoretical and practical basis of Outdoor transformative learning and Placemaking pedagogy and research;
Embody sustainability and its values including supporting fairness and cultural significance, and promoting nature and wellbeing through outdoor experiences;
??Embrace complexity using systems thinking, critical thinking, creativity and problem framing to envision sustainable futures;
?Adopt a relational way of thinking, considering the connections between humans and more than humans by exploring and linking different disciplines (also in a creative way).
Collaborate with other individuals by designing common goals and negotiating actions to support life in all its dimensions, including the other than human;
?Design relevant and viable eco-social projects, engaging inclusive (both collective and individual) initiatives using different languages and media to support and develop transformative learning.
Contents
1. Education for sustainability (EfS) in outdoor contexts
Outdoor learning and EfS
Design inclusive and interdisciplinary spaces and experiences for outdoor education
2.Outdoor immersive experiences
Learning from the environment in outdoor contexts
Eco-socio-cultural values in the landscape and hardscape
Knowing and connecting with the natural world
Placemaking: creating a sense of place
Memory and future literacies
Laboratory on ethics, collaborative and participatory work
Outdoor mind-body practices for development and well-being
Emotions in socio-environmental crisis
3.Outdoor research: foundations and approaches
Holistic approaches of the environment in Europe s roots
Multidiscipinary perceptions of landscape
4.Transformative learning experiences
Critical Thinking in multifuntional communities
Telling landscape: a transformative journey through arts and nature
Transforming in common: towards a pedagogy of nature commons
5.Outdoor research in action:envisioning the future
Outdoor learning and EfS
Design inclusive and interdisciplinary spaces and experiences for outdoor education
2.Outdoor immersive experiences
Learning from the environment in outdoor contexts
Eco-socio-cultural values in the landscape and hardscape
Knowing and connecting with the natural world
Placemaking: creating a sense of place
Memory and future literacies
Laboratory on ethics, collaborative and participatory work
Outdoor mind-body practices for development and well-being
Emotions in socio-environmental crisis
3.Outdoor research: foundations and approaches
Holistic approaches of the environment in Europe s roots
Multidiscipinary perceptions of landscape
4.Transformative learning experiences
Critical Thinking in multifuntional communities
Telling landscape: a transformative journey through arts and nature
Transforming in common: towards a pedagogy of nature commons
5.Outdoor research in action:envisioning the future
Teaching Methods
This course will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty with specialisations and research interests that, on the one hand, complement each other and, on the other, converge with the syllabus. This allows students to come into contact with different disciplinary fields, schools of scientific thought and methodological repertoires.
The methodologies adopted are aimed at theoretical-practical and interdisciplinary integration in the approach to sustainability issues and problems. They involve students in questioning and making decisions about the learning process and the development of assignments:
Research, communication and discussion/debate in a group context, both in physical and digital geography;
Experiential activities in real contexts of contact between culture and nature;
Practical exercises to integrate/reflect on the concepts covered;
Design of interdisciplinary action projects for sustainability.
The methodologies adopted are aimed at theoretical-practical and interdisciplinary integration in the approach to sustainability issues and problems. They involve students in questioning and making decisions about the learning process and the development of assignments:
Research, communication and discussion/debate in a group context, both in physical and digital geography;
Experiential activities in real contexts of contact between culture and nature;
Practical exercises to integrate/reflect on the concepts covered;
Design of interdisciplinary action projects for sustainability.
Assessment
Continuous assessment comprises the following components:
1.Participation (20%)
2.Portfolio (80%)
2.1.Thematic summaries and reflections on learning experiences, particularly in immersive activities and
exploratory sustainability action project plan (30%).
2.2.Oral and written presentation of the Education for Sustainability project (50%).
This course has no final assessment, or the final assessment comprises the elements of the continuous assessment reformulated through formative feedback.
1.Participation (20%)
2.Portfolio (80%)
2.1.Thematic summaries and reflections on learning experiences, particularly in immersive activities and
exploratory sustainability action project plan (30%).
2.2.Oral and written presentation of the Education for Sustainability project (50%).
This course has no final assessment, or the final assessment comprises the elements of the continuous assessment reformulated through formative feedback.
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