ID:
510357
Duration (hours):
54
CFU:
6
SSD:
ECOLOGIA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The training objective of this course is to learn how to structure and carry out an environmental education project, from its design to its practical implementation. The acquisition of these objectives will be facilitated by the presentation of examples and practical case studies, developed in different environmental contexts; students will be directly involved in the conduct of practical cases, through a participatory teaching approach. The results consist in learning the theory behind the implementation of environmental education courses and the main educational and communication methodologies and techniques with their application in the field. Many case studies will deal with typical territorial environments (wetlands, lentic waters, lotic waters, etc.).
Course Prerequisites
None: the course is appropriate for students with different disciplinary backgrounds, as long as they are aware and informed about environmental issues.
Teaching Methods
Lectures with a participatory approach in the classroom and in the field. The field activity will take place in the Pavia area. Experimentation with theater workshop practices. Students participating the DIDATTICA INCLUSIVA program will have reserved access to video-recordings of all lectures.
Assessment Methods
Oral; the test will consist of the preparation of a final paper and its discussion.
Texts
Teaching materials will be made available by the lecturers on the KIRO platform. Some reference texts are: Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, Tbilisi, 1977 Carta dei principi per l'educazione ambientale orientata allo sviluppo sostenibile e consapevole, Fiuggi, 1997 Linee guida per l’educazione ambientale e allo sviluppo sostenibile, MATTM-MIUR, 2015 L’educazione ambientale come terreno di mediazione: una ricerca su competenze e ruoli degli operatori dei Laboratori Territoriali, M. Mayer, a cura di Progetto Europeo MOHD,1999 Pedagogia verde. Educare tra ecologia dell’ambiente ed ecologia umana, P. Malavasi, Ed. La Scuola, 2014
Contents
History of environmental education: In this module, the long journey that led to the birth of environmental education will be examined. This process will also be addressed by analysing the stages that led to the elaboration of the main documents defining this discipline and the figures connected to it, with a critical appraisal of its current implementation, also considering possible techniques to evaluate impact of environmental education techniques.
Educational methodologies: In this module we will discuss the difference between science disseminator and environmental educator by delving into the main educational methodologies pertaining to this discipline. We will address the potential and differences between formal, non-formal and informal education, indoor and outdoor education, also analysing the three levels of experiential learning (emotional, cognitive and behavioural)
Communication techniques: starting from the communication style to be adopted according to the target audience, we will analyse the different communication techniques (verbal and non-verbal language, use of appropriate terminology and voice), storytelling methodologies and didactic mediators (active, iconic, analogical and symbolic)
Participatory teaching in the field: environmental education starts from knowledge of the territory, therefore, through outdoor teaching activities the knowledge learnt during frontal teaching will be put into practice with the direct and active involvement of the students
Performing arts for environmental education: this is an in-depth study of the resources that performing arts and practices can make available to environmental education that will be carried out both through the analysis of some emblematic cases and through the direct experimentation of two applications (the theater workshop and the artistic crosswalk of environments).
Design and implementation of an environmental education course: environmental education can only be defined as such by implementing active courses that involve the recipients emotionally and/or temporally (courses of a single activity or developed over several meetings). Therefore, you will learn how to structure an educational project and develop it; you will start from an analysis of the context of interest from which to derive the educational objectives, the tools that enable them to be achieved, their implementation and the results to be verified in order to assess the achievement of the objectives. This will be aimed at the implementation of an environmental education project by the students.
Educational methodologies: In this module we will discuss the difference between science disseminator and environmental educator by delving into the main educational methodologies pertaining to this discipline. We will address the potential and differences between formal, non-formal and informal education, indoor and outdoor education, also analysing the three levels of experiential learning (emotional, cognitive and behavioural)
Communication techniques: starting from the communication style to be adopted according to the target audience, we will analyse the different communication techniques (verbal and non-verbal language, use of appropriate terminology and voice), storytelling methodologies and didactic mediators (active, iconic, analogical and symbolic)
Participatory teaching in the field: environmental education starts from knowledge of the territory, therefore, through outdoor teaching activities the knowledge learnt during frontal teaching will be put into practice with the direct and active involvement of the students
Performing arts for environmental education: this is an in-depth study of the resources that performing arts and practices can make available to environmental education that will be carried out both through the analysis of some emblematic cases and through the direct experimentation of two applications (the theater workshop and the artistic crosswalk of environments).
Design and implementation of an environmental education course: environmental education can only be defined as such by implementing active courses that involve the recipients emotionally and/or temporally (courses of a single activity or developed over several meetings). Therefore, you will learn how to structure an educational project and develop it; you will start from an analysis of the context of interest from which to derive the educational objectives, the tools that enable them to be achieved, their implementation and the results to be verified in order to assess the achievement of the objectives. This will be aimed at the implementation of an environmental education project by the students.
Course Language
Italian
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The course is taught by professional environmental educators.
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