Social and cultural ecology - ON2314532
Title: Sociální a kulturní ekologie
Guaranteed by: Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Alena Thorovská
Pre-requisite : ON2314519
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Annotation -
The course introduces social and cultural ecology as a field that studies fundamental transformations of the world and human society in recent decades. The contexts, causes and impacts of these changes are analyzed on specific examples, allowing students to understand the basic principles of how the globalizing world works.
Last update: Thorovská Alena, PhDr. (15.09.2019)
Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to find and critically evaluate the arguments for the support of sustainable development. The subject has close links to pedagogical work and therefore students will create proposals for the implementation of particular topics of social and cultural ecology into teaching at secondary school.

Last update: Thorovská Alena, PhDr. (15.09.2019)
Literature -

MEZŘICKÝ, V. Enviromentální politika a udržitelný rozvoj. Praha: Grada, 2005. 80-7367-003-8.


PAPOUŠEK, J. Hovory o ekologii. Praha: Grada, 2000. ISBN 80 -7178-483-4.

MOLDAN, B. Ekologie, demokracie, trh. Praha: Informatorium, 1992. ISBN 80-85368-19-6.


LORENZ, K.  Osm smrtelných hříchů člověka. Praha: Panorama, 1990. ISBN 80-7038-212-0.


KOHÁK, E. Zelená svatozář: kapitoly z ekologické etiky. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2003.ISBN 80-85850-86-9.


RYNDA, I. Trvale udržitelný rozvoj a vzdělávání. In Hledání odpovědí na výzvy současného světa. Praha : Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Centrum pro otázky životního prostředí, 2000.JONES, V. Zelená ekonomika. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2011.

 

SUTTON, M. Q, ANDERSON, E. N. Introduction to cultural ecology. Plymouth: Altamira, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7591-1246-9.

Last update: Thorovská Alena, PhDr. (29.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Article translation and discussion on given topics.

Last update: Thorovská Alena, PhDr. (29.10.2019)
Syllabus -

1. Origin and development of social and cultural ecology.
2. Globalization, its state and perspectives.
3. Current global problems.
4. Principles of sustainable development.

Last update: Thorovská Alena, PhDr. (15.09.2019)