FSS:ENSn4572 Environmental Processes - Course Information
ENSn4572 Facilitation of Environmental Communication Processes
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2024
The course is not taught in Autumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Jan Haverkamp (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Müllerová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! HEN572 Environmental Processes &&! NOW ( HEN572 Environmental Processes )
- 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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Environmental Studies (programme FSS, N-ENV)
- Course objectives
- This seminar will investigate how environmental communication processes like stakeholders meetings, environmental impact assessments, environmental education processes, environmental political debates can be facilitated. It will look into different possibilities of programming communication about environment, the "why"s and it will give students the chance to investigate and train their own facilitation skills.
Goals
- Participants know what facilitation is
- Participants understand the complexity of process dynamics
- Participants can programme simple environmental communication processes
- Participants know basic technical tools in facilitation
- Participants can facilitate in simple communication settings - Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- understand the meaning and meaning of facilitation in the field of environmental negotiation, understand individual phases of facilitation negotiations and be able to apply them to specific situations;
- be able to recognize the manifestation and latent needs of the participants in the negotiation process and propose solutions to satisfy them so that they are in the least contradiction;
- apply individual techniques of facilitation process;
- be able to recognize where the facilitation process can be used with good results and where it is appropriate to replace it with another instrument;
- understand the difference in the phenomenological approach to negotiation and the interpretative approach to negotiation; - Syllabus
- PROGRAMME
- Introduction and basis
- - Introduction in the way this seminar will be run
- - communication processes, environmental communication processes, facilitation
- Programming environmental communication processes
- - elements of a good programme
- - programming formats and ideas
- Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills I
- Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills II
- Analysis of an environmental communication process and wrap-up
- EXAM
- The exam will test facilitation skills and programming an environmental communication process case
- Literature
- required literature
- All material in the IS download section
- The change handbookthe definitive resource on today's best methods for engaging whole systems. Edited by Peggy Holman - Tom Devane - Steven Cady. 2nd ed. rev. and expanded. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007, xxiii, 732. ISBN 9781576753798. info
- The change handbook : group methods for shaping the future. Edited by Peggy Holman - Tom Devane. 1st ed. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999, xiv, 394. ISBN 1576750582. info
- ARNOLD, Rick. Educating for a change. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action, 1991, 206 s. ISBN 0921284489. info
- recommended literature
- The handbook for working with difficult groupshow they are difficult, why they are difficult and what you can do about it. Edited by Sandy Schuman. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010, liii, 422. ISBN 9780470190388. info
- The IAF handbook of group facilitation : best practices from the leading organization in facilitation. Edited by Sandy Schuman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005, xxxiv, 664. ISBN 078797160X. URL info
- SCHWARZ, Roger M. The skilled facilitator fieldbook : tips, tools, and tested methods for consultants, facilitators, managers, trainers, and coaches. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005, xxiv, 546. ISBN 0787964948. URL info
- Teaching methods
- 4 interactive participative full day sessions
1 interactive exam - Assessment methods
- Students are expected to attend all sessions, because facilitation is not something that can be learned from books, but only by interaction.
The methods used will be highly interactive and participative. The seminar blocks will not exist of lectures, but of interactive group work. Also, students need to count with intensive homework between the seminar sessions.
The complete seminar will take place in English.
The course will be examined orally on the basis of the work done during the blocks and background literature. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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