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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
ÇEP 5026	CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	8

Offered By

Environmental Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALI EKBER GÜLERSOY

Offered to

Environmental Education

Course Objective

Make students to gain knowledge and skills about the current common approaches used throughout the world for an effective environmental education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Conceptualize the importance of the environmental literacy,
2	Distinguish the diffenrence between the concepts of deep and shallow ecology,
3	Be able to have a will to educate an environmentalist generation,
4	Recognize contemporary approaches and applications in environmental education,
5	Be able to suggest a novice approach for an effective environmental education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Course introduction
2	Main features of elementary environmental education curriculum
3	Main features of elementary environmental education curriculum
4	Main features of elementary environmental education curriculum
5	Environmental teaching and physics, chemistry and biology in this teaching
6	Environmental teaching and physics, chemistry and biology in this teaching
7	Environmental teaching and physics, chemistry and biology in this teaching
8	Environmental teaching and physics, chemistry and biology in this teaching
9	Environmental education private teaching methods
10	Environmental education private teaching methods
11	Environmental education private teaching methods
12	New Technologies in environmental education
13	New Technologies in environmental education
14	Terms for effective and permanent environmental education
15	Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Özdemir, O. (2010) Doğa Deneyimine Dayalı Çevre Eğitiminin Ilköğretim Öğrencilerinin Çevrelerine Yönelik Algı Ve Davranışlarına Etkisi, Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 27: 125-138

Yıldız, K., Sipahioğu, Ş., Yılmaz, m. (2008) Çevre Bilimi ve Eğitimi, Gündüz Eğitim ve Yay. ISBN:9756859865

Feriver, Ş. (2007): Eğitimde yeni yaklaşımlar ve yeşil kutu http://www.yesilufuklar.info/rec-bulten/rec-turkiye/569-egitimde-yeni-yaklasimlar-ve-yesil-kutu

Tanrıverdi, B. (2009) Sürdürülebilir Çevre Eğitimi Açısından Ilköğretim Programlarının
Değerlendirilmesi, Eğitim ve Bilim 34(151):89-103.

Alım, M. (2006) Avrupa Birliği Üyelik Sürecinde Türkiye de Çevre ve Ilköğretimde Çevre Eğitimi, Kastamonu Eğitim Dergisi, 14(2): 599-616

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, explanation, question-answer, collaborative teaching methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
2	PRS	PRESENTATION
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The homeworks will be assessed by directly adding to the term work scores in semester. The exam dates will be indicated in the lesson plan. As the exam dates become definite, the previously announced dates may change.

Assessment Criteria

In-class participation and written homework, end-of-semester final homework and short report presentation.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is obligated to continue to at least 70% of lessons .
2. Behaviours such as copying in exams, clashing and making intials in the publications will be concluded with the opening of a disciplinary investigation.
3. The instructor has right to make quizzes. The scores obtained from quizzes and term work scores will be directly added to exam scores.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

recep.yildirim@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday-16:00; Thursday-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical	13	4	52
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	13	5	65
Group homework preperation	1	10	10
Reading	1	10	10
Preparing assignments	2	10	20
Preparing presentations	2	10	20
Project Preparation	2	10	20
Project Assignment	1	1	1
Project Final Presentation	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			199

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.5	PO.6	PO.8	PO.9
LO.1	5	3	1	2	5	1	3
LO.2	5	3	1	2	5	1	3
LO.3	5	3	1	2	5	1	3
LO.4	5	3	1	2	5	1	3
LO.5	5	3	1	2	5	1	3

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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