Week 9: Increasing Environmental Sustainability and Competence: The role of formal and informal education, Part 2

Introduction

The goals of this two-week topic are to familiarize students with the history of environmental education (EE), discuss the efforts to embed EE into laws and priorities on an international basis, and open students’ mindsets to the many forms that education can take in the worldwide push for environmental competence.

This second week will wrap up formal education of teachers and students and introduce informal education as an avenue for the world’s youth to learn about and positively impact global sustainability.

This Week, You Will be Expected to: 

  • Update your glossary with 5-10 terms you learned this week. 
  • Evaluate different formats of formal and informal EE based on your understanding of environmental competence. 
  • Envision ways to incorporate multiple formats to solve environmental problems. 

Questions to Consider Throughout this Week: 

  1. Are there any patterns in the ways nations work toward increasing the environmental competence of their teachers, teachers in training, and students? 
  2. What is the relevance of environmental competence to global sustainability? 

Readings and Content

  1. Formal EE Across the Globe Continued: Outdoor Experiential Learning at Various Levels Across the Globe 

    2. Informal Education Opportunities Across the Globe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Global EdD (taught doctorate) in Remote Pedagogy and Stewardship Copyright © by Kara Ghobhainn Smith; David D. Plain; Frank Rennie, Gareth Davies, UHI, Thu Le; Clinton Beckford, Loretta Sbrocca; and ShiJing Xu, Chenkai Chi, Yuhan Deng, University of Windsor, Canada is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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