Education for Environmental Citizenship: A Master’s Course Incorporating International Collaboration †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Course Aims and Structure
- Develop a broad understanding of the crucial role of EEC in today’s risk society.
- Acquire a broad, basic understanding of EC from theoretical and practical perspectives.
- Connect EC to education in general and to contemporary pedagogies.
- Develop educational interventions for cultivating EC in different educational and cultural contexts. By incorporating opportunities for cooperation and joint learning among different groups of students from different (cultural and educational) backgrounds, the course facilitates a deeper understanding of what it means to act as an educational agent of social change.
Learning and Teaching Methods
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
References
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Topic of Unit/Module | Teaching Methods | Example of Activity/Student Tasks |
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Course presentation and expectations Acquaintance | Face-to-face | Preparatory task: Intuitive perceptions of citizenship. What is your definition of civic/citizenship education? What does being a citizen mean for me today? Readings: UN, 2015; UNESCO 2017; Capra and Luigi Luisi, 2014, OECD, 2018 (key competences) Create concept map of selected sustainability issue; map newspaper article of local/global sustainability issue. |
Framing the discourse:
| Asynchronous | |
Ecological footprint: Connecting lifestyles to sustainability issues | Asynchronous; collaboration with intl. students | Calculate personal/family/etc. EF using EF calculator and using a critical, comparative perspective of barriers and enablers for making change in relation to different cultural and social-institutional contexts. |
Environmental/Sustainability Citizenship: Theories of EC—how citizenship theoreticians frame sustainability in the context of citizenship (i.e., greening the concept of citizenship). | Asynchronous | Online interview with citizenship theoretician on EC in the context of citizenship theories Team task: Readings of citizenship theories and peer teaching Recorded lecture on EC—sustainability change agent framework (Sarid and Goldman, 2021), and EEC conceptualized within the ENEC. |
The ENEC framework for EC; connecting EC and change agency as developmental constructs. | Asynchronous | |
Situating EEC in contemporary educational theory: Competences for lifelong learning (OECD, Israeli Ministry of Education) | Asynchronous | Movie: OECD—Education 2030 (Compass clip) Israeli Ministry of Education (2020) framework for K-12 graduates’ learning outcomes (knowledge, skills, and values) Team Task: Select pedagogy from a list as an example of a pedagogy conducive for promoting EC and prepare presentation for peer learning. Meet the experts: online recordings of lectures by international pedagogical experts together with MA students in international university |
Selected progressive pedagogies associated with EEC (e.g., emancipatory learning, place-based, critical pedagogy, transformative learning, inquiry-based). | Collaboration with international lecturers | |
Educational change agents toward EC: Workshops for developing educational interventions devoted to incorporating EEC in different educational contexts. | Face-to-face workshops (after the semester ends) | Final Product: Develop (in teams) work-plan for an educational intervention for incorporating EEC in specific cultural and educational context. International cooperation through either (a) mini-conference (long-distance) presenting interventions; (b) joint development in international teams via mobility. |
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Sarid, A.; Goldman, D. Education for Environmental Citizenship: A Master’s Course Incorporating International Collaboration. Environ. Sci. Proc. 2022, 14, 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022014020
Sarid A, Goldman D. Education for Environmental Citizenship: A Master’s Course Incorporating International Collaboration. Environmental Sciences Proceedings. 2022; 14(1):20. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022014020
Chicago/Turabian StyleSarid, Ariel, and Daphne Goldman. 2022. "Education for Environmental Citizenship: A Master’s Course Incorporating International Collaboration" Environmental Sciences Proceedings 14, no. 1: 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022014020