ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: THEORY, METHODS AND PLANNING

Academic Year 2020/2021 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educazione ambientale e territorio, insegnamento
Teaching Staff: Gaetano BONETTA
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: M-PED/01 - THEORIES AND SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

To be able to use, in a critical manner, concepts characterizing the environmental education and in particular the reciprocity between environment and culture that is a fundamental element of the human identity and the basis of the establishment of democratic processes and inclusion.

- Acquire theoretical and operational tools to develop, and address issues in relation to the design, plan of environmental educational practice models in the pedagogical and clinical areas. This aims

at reconciling the ecosystem protection and the development of wellbeing in various contexts at a local, regional, national and European leve


Course Structure

frontal lessons with laboratory

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.


Detailed Course Content

The following topics will be discussed and analysed:

- the relationship between people and contexts in contemporary pedagogy;

-models and theories of environment;

-culture of sustainability, human development, ethical and social responsibility;

-the metaphor of the practice of the cultivation of the earth from a pedagogical perspective;

-skills, related to the environmental education and sustainable development, to promote intercultural dialogue, environmental protection, social cohesion, legality and active democratic citizenship;

- the value of the difference (biological and cultural) for the protection of the common good in a perspective of integration / inclusion;

- best environmental education practices

Most modules are taught by some combination of lectures, seminars and workshops


Textbook Information

1. L. Mortari, Educazione ecologica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2020

2. L. Mortari, R. Silva (a cura di). Per una cultura verde. Riflessioni sull’educazione ambientale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2018 (open access).

3. A.A.VV. (a cura di), Educazione alla sostenibilità, numero monografico della rivista “Pedagogia Oggi” Rivista semestrale SIPED anno I, vol. 16 n., giugno 2018 PDF scaricabile all'indirizzo web: http://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/siped

4. M. Tomarchio, G. D'Aprile, La terra come luogo di cura educativa. Metafore e tracce nel tempo, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2014

5. S. Latouche Breve trattato sulla decrescita serena. Come sopravvivere allo sviluppo, Bollati Boringhieri,Torino, 2015.