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Sustainability Education for future Teachers - OENBB1714Z
Title: Sustainability Education for future Teachers
Guaranteed by: Katedra biologie a environmentálních studií (41-KBES)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: both
E-Credits: 4
Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (15)
summer:unknown / unknown (15)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9501
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Jančaříková, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)
The pilars of sustainibility. The Environmental pillar of sustainibility: circulation of materials, energy cascade, trophic network, ecosystem, ecosystems division, environmental landmarks, key species, ecological balance (ecosystem stress, resistance, rezilience, destabilization, succession ), ecological niche (free , busy, and so on), competition, adaptation to environmental conditions. Anthropogenic influences, migration and transfer of species declining biodiversity, pollution , climate change, alienation from nature. Sustainable living and development, governmental and transgovernmental and strategy documents. The history of conservation in the Czech Republic . Economical pillar of sustainability. Economics . Econometric. The economic pillar of sustainable development. Price, value, future value, ecological footprint , econometrics . Debt. Good value for money . Methods of determination of value. The exchange value . Does money move with the world? How to influence money to "green" movement? Externalized costs Victor Lebow. Film "The story of stuff". Fair trade and other way. Examples of good practice. The Social and cultural pillars The social pillar os sustainibility. History. Culture. Natural nations. Third World. Mass culture. Alternative cultur. Several examples of .Oral history. Multicultural. Diversity of cultures. How to ensure cultural diversity and lifestyle diversity? Voluntary humility/simplicity. And several examples from Czech republic (Librová). Education topics How can cross-cutting issue included in the EV or individual subjects or disciplines. Methods and inspirations. Environmental sensitivity, research skills for environmental studies, environmental problems and conflicts and action strategies. Experiential learning. Learning by doing.
Aim of the course
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

The goal is to provide basic information on ecology, sustainibility and environmental education to future teachers.

They will be motivate to teach these cross-curriculum theme and they will learn the way of aplication environmental education and eduation for sustanibility in their subjects and disciplines.

Descriptors
Last update: doc. PhDr. Kateřina Jančaříková, Ph.D. (10.02.2021)

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9501

Literature -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Bookchin, Murray: The Modern Crisis. One of the books of social criticism that his thinking known as "social ecology " criticism of market economies in terms of " moral economy" with a strong emphasis on sustainability.

Boulding, Kenneth: "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth in Henry Jarrett, ed, Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md, 1966, pp. 3-14.

Elgin, Duane: Voluntary Simplicity : An Ecological Lifestyle that Promotes Personal and Social Renewal Bantam Books, New York, 1982.

Lovelock, James. (2000) [1979]. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. Lovelock, James. 'Enjoy life while you can'.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange.

McKibben, Bill. Hope, Human and Wild : True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth. Little Brown and Co, Boston, 1995. - Examples of sustainable lives.

Teaching methods
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Seminars and individual consultation.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Oral discussion or test.

Syllabus
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

The curricula of all European Union Member States and associated countries is composed demand for environmental education and later on education for sustainable development. This subject is dedicated to students of pedagogy - future teachers . They will be faced in the future need to integrate these topics into their preparation for teaching.

Students will learn the basic terms of environmental, economic and cultural pillars of sustainable living. There will also be familiar with efective methods to how to apply them to teaching practice (relayed to the students).

 
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