Environmental_Education

COURSE OUTLINE

GENERAL

SCHOOL	AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT	FORESTRY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
LEVEL OF STUDIES	UNDERGRADUATE
COURSE CODE		SEMESTER		2
COURSE TITLE	ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
TEACHING ACTIVITIES If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits.			TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK		ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and laboratory work			4		5


Please, add lines if necessary. Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.
COURSE TYPE Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development	Compulsory
PREREQUISITES:	–
TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE:	Greek
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS:	NO
COURSE URL:

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes
Please describe the learning outcomes of the course: Knowledge, skills and abilities acquired after the successful completion of the course.
The objective of the course is to enable students to understand and make environmental problems known as well as design and implement learning activities with the aim of creating positive attitudes towards the environment and environmentally responsible behavior.
General Skills
Name the desirable general skills upon successful completion of the module
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, ICT Use Adaptation to new situations Decision making Autonomous work Teamwork Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas	Project design and management Equity and Inclusion Respect for the natural environment Sustainability Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Critical thinking Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning
Autonomous work Teamwork Search, analysis and synthesis of date and information

COURSE CONTENT

· Evolution of Environmental Education / Education for Sustainable Development

· International Declarations for Environmental Education / Education for Sustainable Development

· The Concept of Sustainable Development

· Educational Ideologies on Environmental Education

· Pedagogical characteristics of Environmental Education / Education for Sustainable Development, e.g., interdisciplinarity, critical thinking, etc.

· Implementing Environmental Education / Education for Sustainable Development activities in school

· Finding and utilizing appropriate sources for the development of learning activities

· Student presentations

LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION

TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.

In the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students

· power point, videos

· e-class

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

The ways and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory Exercise, Field Exercise, Bibliographic research & analysis, Tutoring, Internship (Placement), Clinical Exercise, Art Workshop, Interactive learning, Study visits, Study / creation, project, creation, project. Etc.

The supervised and unsupervised workload per activity is indicated here, so that total workload per semester complies to ECTS standards.

*Activity*	*Workload/semester*
Lectures	28
Interactive teaching	24
Autonomous study	51
Student presentations	22



Course total	125

Student Evaluation

Description of the evaluation process

Assessment Language, Assessment Methods, Formative or Concluding, Multiple Choice Test, Short Answer Questions, Essay Development Questions, Problem Solving, Written Assignment, Essay / Report, Oral Exam, Presentation in audience, Laboratory Report, Clinical examination of a patient, Artistic interpretation, Other/Others

Please indicate all relevant information about the course assessment and how students are informed

· Student presentations.

· Written examination.

· Students suffering from dyslexia are examined orally.

· Each question in the final examination is accompanied by the grade students will earn if they answer it correctly.

· Students can see their answers in their examination sheet if they wish.

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alexandros Georgopoulos (Ed) (2014). Environmental Education. Athens: Gutenberg.

Konstantina Tsampoukou-Skanavis (2004). Environment and Society. Athens: Kaleidoskopio Publications.

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

Teacher (full name):	Evangelos Manolas
Contact details:	emanolas@fmenr.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1)
Evaluation methods: (2)	Individual or team presentations and written examination.
Implementation Instructions: (3)	Multiple choice questions and true false questions. The completion of student assignments during the semester is a pre-requisite for the participation of students in the written examination.

Please write YES or NO
Note down the evaluation methods used by the teacher, e.g.
written assignment or/and exercises
written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
In the Implementation Instructions section, the teacher notes down clear instructions to the students:

a) in case of written assignment and / or exercises: the deadline (e.g. the last week of the semester), the means of submission, the grading system, the grade percentage of the assignment in the final grade and any other necessary information.
b) in case of oral examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for conducting the examination (e.g. in groups of X people), the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the distance learning platforms to be used, the technical means for the implementation of the examination (microphone, camera, word processor, internet connection, communication platform), the hyperlinks for the examination, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the oral exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.
c) in case of written examination with distance learning methods: the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the written exam of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the integrity and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.

There should be an attached list with the Student Registration Numbers only of students eligible to participate in the examination.

Course: Environmental_Education

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Prerequisites: Mandatory

Credits: ECTS 5

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