PdF:SOk721 Ecological Education - Course Information
SOk721 Basics of Ecological Education
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1.2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Hana Korvasová (lecturer)
Ing. Dana Křivánková (lecturer)
Hana Mikulicová (lecturer)
RNDr. Jan Trávníček (lecturer) - 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 - 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
- Social Education (programme PdF, B-PD)
- Course objectives
- The main objective of the course is to convince students about the importance of environmental education, to deepen their knowledge and skills in ecology and didactics of environmental education, to broaden their overview of current problems and related literature, to provide practical ideas and inspiration for teaching, to enable students to present their own opinions and individual pedagogical approaches.
- Syllabus
- Information on the environment, the right to receive information on the environment. Protection of nature and landscape in the Czech Republic and the EU. Selected global environmental issues. The position of environmental education in primary school education, teaching outdoors and in the school garden. Ecological education in the family and in extra curricular activities. Efficiency of environmental activity and the possibility of increasing it. Environmental education programs as part of primary school education. Orientation in values and environmentally friendly ways of human behaiour. Miracles in nature, a summary of basic ecological concepts and environmental contexts. Practical demonstrations of activating methods which can be used in EEC.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- 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
- MÁCHAL, Aleš. Průvodce praktickou ekologickou výchovou. Brno: Rezekvítek, 2000, 205 s. ISBN 8090295401. info
- MÁCHAL, Aleš. Špetka dobromysli : kapitoly z praktické ekologické výchovy. 1. vydání. Brno: EkoCentrum, 1996, 153 stran. ISBN 8090166865. info
- HORKÁ, Hana. Teorie a metodika ekologické výchovy (Theory and methodology of eccological education). Brno: Paido, 1996, 75 pp. ISBN 80-85931-33-8. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, guided discussion, research lesson, team work, independent work with literature.
- Assessment methods
- Reading and critical review of a book from the field of environmental and ecological literature of your choice. 100% attendance, individual catch-up for missed lessons if necessary.
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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