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ED4944:03

Environmental Education for the Tropics

External

HECS Band 1

Please check prerequisites in Master Schedule.
20 hours lectures, 10 hours web tutorials, 10 hours field work. Semester 2.

Staff:

Dr H Whitehouse.

This subject introduces students to contemporary approaches in environmental education with emphasis on the Australian tropics. Students will review curriculum, pedagogy and implementation issues and be encouraged to link theoretical understandings with innovative ideas for environmental education practice in schools and community settings. Lectures and tutorials are conducted online through LearnJCU. Students are asked to complete a set of reflective, hands-on, learning investigations including field trips to local sites. A negotiated research and/or curriculum project allows students to follow up personal interests in the area of tropical environmental education.

Learning Objectives:

become familiar with contemporary ideas of policy for and approaches to environmental education in Australia;

develop knowledge and understandings of curriculum development and pedagogical practice in relation to environmental education in tropical environments;

reflect on and evaluate environmental educational practices in relevant professional settings;

build a repertoire of teaching and learning strategies for effective environmental practice in a range of educational settings.

Assessment by contribution to web-based discussions (10%); learning investigations (40%); negotiated project (50%).