COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEP 5544 CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Environmental Education Non-Thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI EKBER GÜLERSOY

Offered to

Environmental Education Non-Thesis

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 and required reading list
2 Environmental literacy, deep and shallow ecology
3 Constructivist environmental education
4 Environmental education based on students development levels
5 Main features of elementary environmental education curriculum
6 Environmental teaching and physics, chemistry and biology entegrasyonu
7 Environmental education approaches in the world
8 Environmental education approaches in the world
9 Project based environmental education
10 Problem solving in environmental education
11 Nature schools and outdoor education
12 New Technologies in environmental education
13 Drama and environmental education
14 Student presentations towards 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.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The homeworks will be assessed by directly adding to the term working 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 to be taken from these quizzes will be added to the term working scores and final exam scores in semester.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ali.gulersoy@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 3 39
Pre Class Self Study 13 5 65
Final Preparation 1 10 10
Project Preparation 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Final Exam 1 1 1
Project Assignment 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15312513
LO.25312513
LO.35312513
LO.45312513
LO.55312513

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