Undergraduate - UnitEDF3175 - Outdoor environments, education and sustainability

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Not offered in 2015

Synopsis

This unit develops critical understandings of key concepts and issues in sustainability, education for sustainability, and sustainable development. It adopts a place-responsive approach to developing understandings of sustainability and sustainable practices, including management strategies for specific outdoor environments that variously attempt to conserve, preserve, prevent, change or balance particular interactions and uses. The unit draws on the lenses of outdoor education, experiential education and environmental education, and considers their contributions to 'eco pedagogy'. Topics draw on investigations of creative and critical teaching and learning about culture--nature concepts and relationships, complemented by local field and professional examples to develop practices and capabilities for designing and assessing a range of 'eco pedagogies'.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

understand key concepts, issues and theories associated with educating for sustainability
engage learners and communities in education for a more equitable and sustainable world
develop, design and implement a range of eco pedagogic approaches to education in outdoor environments
evaluate and articulate the efficacy of eco pedagogic practices.

Assessment

Small group project: Eco pedagogies and environmental design (2000 words equivalent, 50%)
Essay: Eco-identity, sustainability and ethics (2000 words, 50%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

workshops - 24 hours over the semester

(b.) Additional requirements:

independent study to make up the minimum required hours per semester, engaging with online material, readings, revision, assignment work and other study

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Secondary health and physical education

Co-requisites

EDF3103