Postgraduate Course: Education for Environmental Citizenship (EDUA11215)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
There is evidence that educators find it difficult to nurture long-standing identities of environmental citizenship with learners. This is an important problem facing responses to issues of ecological crises/sustainability. The problem can be analysed positively through at least two perspectives: the supposed development of identities of environmental citizenship; and the limitations on the educator in socio-cultural and institutional settings. This course will offer ideas for reflection among practitioners who are interested in environmental, outdoor and sustainability education. The central ideas will include: (a) critical reflection on the nature of experience, the nature of identity, and the relationship between the two; (b) the resulting problem of nurturing identities in general ('education for') and nurturing identities of environmental citizenship in particular; (c) recognition of wider social and institutional limitations on the possibility of an education for environmental citizenship. To assist with this reflection, we will engage in narrative enquiry and in the critical evaluation of case studies of pedagogy for environmental citizenship.
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Moray House | Seminar | Day 1 | 8 | | | 09:00 - 17:00 | | | | Moray House | Seminar | Day 2 | 8 | | | | 09:00 - 17:00 | | | Moray House | Seminar | Day 3 | 13 | | 09:00 - 17:00 | | | | | Moray House | Seminar | Day 4 | 13 | | | 09:00 - 17:00 | | | | Moray House | Seminar | Day 5 | 13 | | | | 09:00 - 17:00 | |
| First Class |
Week 8, Wednesday, 09:00 - 17:00, Zone: Moray House. Wed 10 November, 9.30 am. Room to be Confirmed |
| Additional information |
There are two multi-day teaching blocks. |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to:
Articulate and evaluate contested concepts of environmental citizenship and identity in late modernity
Critique a range of approaches to interrogating environmental identity and its sources, and critique related published research
Plan, execute and evaluate a narrative enquiry, and reflect on being a participant in such an enquiry
Plan and evaluate learning experiences that are informed by concepts of environmental citizenship and identity
Critically contextualise their own and others practices in the socio-cultural and institutional fields that present opportunities and limitations to the development of education for environmental citizenship
Evaluate a range of case study pedagogies for environmental citizenship in the light of the above
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Assessment Information
| 1 x 4,000 word assignment based on a short narrative inquiry research task |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Non-standard timetable. |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Hamish Ross
Tel: (0131 6)51 6410
Email: hamish.ross@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Sarah Mcneil
Tel: (0131 6)51 6573
Email: Sarah.F.McNeil@ed.ac.uk |
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