SOk842 Environmental Education 2: Environmental Approaches for Educators

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1.2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Korvasová (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Mikulicová (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Nováčková (lecturer)
Mgr. Vladislava Kolářová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Gulová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOk832 Environmental Education 1
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject develops a deeper understanding of environmental problems, motivates to adopt and apply the presented approaches to practice. The aim is to delve deeper into the other three approaches in the field of environmental education, namely learning in context, learning about and inside the real world, and learning with one's own involvement.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to: apply knowledge in practice create educational programs discuss the topic
Syllabus
  • 1. Environmental issues: water and soil, energy, global climate change, tropical rain forests, care for the Šumava NP as a case study.
  • Summary of basic environmental contexts, including didactic recommendations on teaching the basics of ecology, environmentalism, global environmental problems and principles of sustainable development.
  • 2. Overview and Practical demonstrations of practice-approved approaches to EEC:
  • We learn in context
  • - thematic teaching - use of methodical publications Golden thread, Seven colours of rainbow, Forest at school, school in the forest, etc.
  • We learn about and inside the real world
  • - regional teaching, locally grounded learning
  • We learn by our own involvement
  • - Project teaching, Eco School, School for sustainable life, Globe etc.
  • 3. Presentation of students' topics
  • Students' practical demonstrations of activating methods usable in EEC
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDREOTTI, Vanessa, Vladimír BURJAN, Jan ČINČERA, Zuzana GALLAYOVÁ, Juraj HIPŠ, Mikuláš HUBA, Fumiyo KAGAWA, Jan KRAJHANZL, Zuzana LABAŠOVÁ, Aleš MÁCHAL, Richard MEDAL, Miroslava PILÁRIKOVÁ and David SELBY. Environmentálna výchova v súvislostiach. 1. vydanie. Zvolen: Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, 2015, 267 stran. ISBN 9788022827942. info
  • SLÁMOVÁ, Pavlína. Kdo je ekopedagog? In: Úvod do environmentální výchovy a globálního rozvojového vzdělávání: soubor učebních textů. 1. vyd. Brno: Lipka - školské zařízení pro environmentální vzdělávání, 2012, 2 pp. ISBN 978-80-87604-01-4. info
    recommended literature
  • NOVÁČEK, Pavel. Od Noemovy archy k Titaniku a zase zpátky. 1. vyd. Brno: Lipka - školské zařízení pro environmentální vzdělávání, 2013, 177 s. ISBN 9788087604427. info
  • ZOUHAROVÁ, Dáša. Regionální učebnice : metodika tvorby regionální učebnice jako výchovně-vzdělávacího prostředku regionální výuky. 1. vyd. Brno: Lipka - školské zařízení pro environmentální vzdělávání, 2012, 92 s. ISBN 9788087604137. info
  • NOVÁČEK, Pavel. Udržitelný rozvoj. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2010, 430 s. ISBN 9788024425146. info
  • GORE, Al. Nepříjemná pravda : naše planeta v ohrožení - globální oteplování a co s ním můžeme udělat. Translated by Jitka Fialová. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 2007, 325 s. ISBN 9788072038688. info
  • LIBROVÁ, Hana. Vlažní a váhaví : (kapitoly o ekologickém luxusu). Vyd. 1. Brno: Doplněk, 2003, 319 s. ISBN 8072391496. info
  • LIBROVÁ, Hana. Pestří a zelení : (kapitoly o dobrovolné skromnosti). 1. vyd. Brno: Hnutí DUHA, 1994, 218 s. ISBN 8085368188. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion, simulation games, group work, field lessons, student presentations.
Assessment methods
Didactic test. Written preparation of the activity based on the presented approaches to EEC and its practical demonstration.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 14 hodin.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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