Environment, Sustainability and the Role of Education

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This module aims to introduce students to key perspectives in the field of environmental education with a view to critically applying these ideas to their personal lives, professional practices and their engagement with wider social arrangements. The module will enable students to acquire an interdisciplinary understanding of the historical, philosophical, social and political dimensions of environmental education. With knowledge of the multiple influences informing the concept of environment education, students will consider current modes of delivery across a variety of contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the aims and scope of environmental education and issues surrounding curriculum content, assessment strategies and pedagogical practices. Students will be challenged to critique dominant discourses in environmental education, including sustainability education, by considering alternative perspectives from environmental ethics, place-based learning and citizenship. Students will also consider the roles that research, leadership and teacher education have in shaping an environmentally literate society.

Specially, this module will enable students to:

Develop an understanding of the field of environmental education, including the role of national and international policies, from across interdisciplinary perspectives;
Develop an understanding of the different modes of environmental education practice, with particular attention on its aims, curriculum content, forms of assessment and pedagogical strategies;
Critically reflect on environmental educational practices at a personal, professional and a wider societal level;
Develop greater critical awareness of key issues facing contemporary environmental educational policy and practice nationally and internationally; and
Collaboratively investigate this material with others and communicate their thoughts and findings in a variety of ways.

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