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Leinfelder Year
Course:
Children live in an us-world as a we-world
Design democracy and environmental education in a future-oriented manner
Admission requirements
none
Semester: 8
Orientation
Social peace
Focus
The future requires shared responsibility
Aim
Environmental education for sustainable development is democratically anchored in the European Union and the United Nations. Democratic participation learning in the field of future-oriented design of human-nature relationships in the Anthropocene is the focus of this course: so that the environment can be understood as a non-world and become a non-world. Based on the ecological, social, economic and cultural dimensions of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), the concepts of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and the UN Sustainability Goals (SDGs), didactic models for transformative education are developed, which can be used in subject teaching in... be implemented through a multi-perspective discussion.
Content
- Democracy and environmental education
- Concepts of transformative education in the context of educational action for social change
- Didactic models of democratic participatory learning and their application in subject teaching
- Diversity of methods for implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) in subject teaching
- Analysis, evaluation and design of educational materials on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address poverty and inequality, environmental destruction and climate change, modes of production and consumption, decent work and global co-responsibility
- World knowledge for an age-appropriate orientation in an inclusive and heterogeneous society
show detailsshow lessLearning outcomes/skills
The graduates ...
- are aware of the close connection between democracy and environmental education for co-responsible shaping of the future
- know the principles of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED)
- can link didactic models of democratic participatory learning with the subject areas of subject teaching
- use a variety of methods for democracy and environmental education in science lessons to sensitize children to cosmopolitanism, social participation, empathy and tolerance as well as global shared responsibility
- analyze, evaluate and design educational materials on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for primary school content lessons
- Have the opportunity to prepare complex topics of world knowledge for primary school.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- English
- Civic education
- Reflexive gender pedagogy and gender equality
- Environmental education
- Economic and consumer education
- Scientific work
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar-like work with a workshop character, research-based learning in project work, e-learning formats: Type 1, 2, 3, 4
Languages
German, English
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
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