HEN922 Environmentally relevant behavior from interdisciplinary perspective

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jan Činčera, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jan Krajhanzl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Hana Librová, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Hana Librová, CSc.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Veronika Išová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
None
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to develop the competence of Ph.D. students to interpret their research problems from social science (e.g., sociology, psychology, pedagogy, etc.) perspective and to communicate their findings to expert audience.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, students will be able to
- evaluate similarities and differences between their own, field-specific interpretation of their research problem, and its interpretations based in different discourses;
- reflect and analyze various specific perspectives of selected interdisciplinary topics associated with pro-environmental behavior;
- reflect strong and weak parts of their own competence in communication of their findings to professional audience.
Syllabus
  • 1. An Introduction. An overview in interdisciplinary field: differences between descriptive and normative approaches, research of micro, meso, and macrodimension of relationship between human and nature;
  • 2. Conceptualisation of relationship between human and nature;
  • 3.-4.Methodological aspects of research or pro-environmental behavior;
  • 5.Limited rationality and relationsip between attitudes and behavior;
  • 6.-7.Theoretical reflection of environmental aspects of modern life-style (individualisation, motivation, habitus...);
  • 8. Consumerism and ecologically friendly life-style;
  • 9. Paradigmatic approaches to environmental education;
  • 10. Selected research traditions of environmental education research;
  • 11. Ethical aspects of environmental education;
  • 12. Application of research topics of pro-environmental behavior in practice.
Literature
    required literature
  • LIBROVÁ, Hana, Vojtěch PELIKÁN, Lucie GALČANOVÁ and Lukáš KALA. Věrní a rozumní: kapitoly o ekologické zpozdilosti (The Faithful and the Reasonable: Chapters on Ecological Foolishness). 1. vyd. Brno: Munipress, 2016, 328 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8454-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8412-2016. info
  • Environmental psychology : an introduction. Edited by Linda Steg - A. E. van den Berg - Judith I. M. de Groot. First published. Chichester: BPS Blackwell, 2013, xxix, 376. ISBN 9780470976388. info
  • WINTER, Deborah Du Nann and Susan M. KOGER. Psychologie environmentálních problémů. Translated by Jiří Foltýn. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2009, 295 s. ISBN 9788073675936. info
  • Contested natures. Edited by Phil Macnaghten - John Urry. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 1999, viii, 307. ISBN 9781848609310. info
    recommended literature
  • Heimlich, J., & Ardoin, N. (2008). Understanding behavior to understand behavior change: a literature review. Environmental Education Research, 14(3), 215–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504620802148881
  • Stevenson, R.J., Brody, M., Dillon, J., & Wals, A.E.J. (2013). International Handbook on Research in Environmental Education. Routledge.
  • Rickinson, M. (2001). Learners and Learning in Environmental Education: A critical review of the evidence. Environmental Education Research (Vol. 7). https://doi.org/10.1080/13504620120065230
  • KRAJHANZL, Jan. Psychologie vztahu k přírodě a životnímu prostředí (Psychology of Relationship toward Nature and the Environment). Brno: Lipka, MUNI press, 2014, 200 pp. ISBN 978-80-87604-67-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-7063-2014. kniha info
  • LIBROVÁ, Hana. Individualizace v environmentální perspektivě: sociologické rámování mění pohled a plodí otázky (Individualisation from an Environmental Perspective: How Sociological Framing Alters Outlooks and Generates Questions). Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2010, vol. 46, No 1, p. 125-152. ISSN 0038-0288. URL info
Teaching methods
A lecture, team work, discussion about selected interdisciplinary topics, presentation of students' research projects, feedback to students' presentations.
Assessment methods
Oral exam; mandatory participation in courses (at least 70%) and presentation of students' own research project or finding. Assessing of their competence to discuss their topic from interdisciplinary perspective, a colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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