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Encounters with nature
Course: Children build bridges
Technology – mechanics – work
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP
Semester: 7
Orientation
Anthropocene
Focus
Encounters with nature
Aim
The thematic focuses in this course are building and construction, the exploration of technology and work, and the use of technology in the Anthropocene. The students deepen their subject-specific knowledge as well as their knowledge of the didactic–methodical teaching of technical contexts at the primary level. Furthermore, technical and historical developments and the effects of globalisation as well as the significance of researchers and inventors in terms of reflexive gender education and equality in the context of career and life orientation are addressed.
Content
- Consolidation of basic knowledge in the areas of technology and mechanics in discussion with specialist literature
- Planning of interdisciplinary teaching projects on building and construction (stability, tools, devices, machines) under the aspect of ecological ethics (environmental ethics); problem-solving processes and the development of alternatives
- Interactions between humans and their technical world as well as historical perspectives of scientific and social progress: significant scientific–technical inventions and their inventors
- Insights into different life and professional worlds as well as the development of technical professions/skilled trades in a gender-specific context with the inclusion of German and English-language non-fiction picture books and children’s non-fiction books as well as analogue and digital games as source material for lessons
- In-depth study of "oral history" and theory-based research and development of historical sources (e.g. archives, local history museum, technical museum, work with contemporary witnesses)
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The graduates ...
- can explain their subject-specific and subject-didactic knowledge in the fields of technology and mechanics
- can purposefully plan and reflect on interdisciplinary teaching projects on the subject area of building and construction in the context of the Anthropocene
- are able to critically reflect on technical achievements and inventions in their historical, political, ecological, and economic context
- are familiar with a repertoire of age-appropriate books and games that contribute to raising awareness with regard to reflexive gender pedagogy and the importance of researchers and inventors as well as educational, vocational, and life orientation
- have the necessary linguistic resources in the living foreign language English and are familiar with suitable CLIL strategies in order to describe different living and working environments as well as technical professions/skilled trades and to use them in learning scenarios appropriate for children
- are familiar with ways of incorporating "oral history" and different historical sources into lessons at the primary level.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Entrepreneurship Education
- Reflexive gender pedagogy and gender equality
- English
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar work
Languages
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Seminar (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance/seminar paper
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