Educação, Ambiente e Sustentabilidade

Code:

E527

Acronym:

EAS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	13	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This optional semester course (UC) is part of the field of education for citizenship. It aims at promoting the understanding of the emergence of environmental issues and the search for solutions/actions of sustainable development for human societies and all the Planet's inhabitants, as well as the possibilities of the educational field in the increment of these actions. It begins covering a theoretical and practical contextualization of some topics on Environment, Sustainability and the roles of Education, moving on, afterwards, to the critical analysis of projects and activities of environmental education and finishing with the challenge of designing an intervention project.
To this end, the following objectives are established:

- Explore some challenges brought by environmental problems and the emergency of sustainable development to the fields of citizenship and education.

- Analyze documents and reference actions in the field of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development.

- Design and discuss interventions of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development in diverse socioeducational contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is expected that at the end of this UC the students will be able to:

1 - Understand the various dimensions (local, regional, global) and components (environmental, economic, social, political, cultural) of environmental issues and of the emergence of sustainable development.

2 - Relate and problematize the essential role of education in the achievement of the objectives and goals of national and international agendas for sustainable development.

3 - Critically analyze documents, actions and activities of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development.

4 - Recognize some methodologies of action in Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development, and their adaptation to different socio-educational contexts and target audiences.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Environment and Sustainability
1.1 The state of the environment and environmental issues from a sustainability perspective
1.2 Brief historical contextualization of concepts, movements and perspectives
1.3 National and international reference documents, programs and organizations

2. The role of Education: environmental education and education for sustainable development for global citizenship
2.1 From environmental education to education for sustainable development
2.2 Educational contexts on environment and sustainability: formal, non-formal and informal
2.3 Environmental education projects and activities.

Mandatory literature

Gadotti Moacir; Educar para a sustentabilidade. ISBN: 978-85-61910-03-7
Ministério da Educação – DGE; Referencial de Educação Ambiental para a Sustentabilidade, Ministério da Educação, 2018
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 100/2017; Estratégia Nacional de Educação Ambiental 2020, Diário da República, 1.ª série, N.º 132, 11 de julho de 2017, pp. 3533- 3550, 2017
Schmidt, Luísa ; Guerra, Joaquim e Nave, João ; Educação Ambiental. Balanço e perspectivas para uma agenda mais sustentável, Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010
UNESCO; Educação para os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Objetivos de Aprendizagem, UNESCO, 2017
Rieckmann, Marco; Key themes in Education for Sustainable Development , A.. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (Eds.) Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development, Chapter 3, pp. 61-85, 2018, UNESCO, 2018

Complementary Bibliography

Freitas, Mário; Educação Ambiental e/ou Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável? Uma análise centrada na realidade portuguesa, Revista Iberoamericana de Educación, 2005, 41, pp. 133-147, 2005
Soromenho-Marques Viriato 1957-; Economia, política e desenvolvimento sustentável
United Nations; Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development, A/RES/70/1, 2015

Teaching methods and learning activities

The contact hours, consisting of theoretical and practical lessons, will include face-to-face lessons and diversified methods. A flipped learning methodology will be adopted with the use of the U.Porto Moodle platform. In a flipped class, theory contents are made available to students before the classes, and the class consists of more active methodologies and interactions (debate; documents search and analysis; production and presentation of papers; and tutorial guidance). After the class, discussion forums will be opened in Moodle to share searches and additional challenges and doubts. The classes work will be used in three individual assignments to learning assessment, including an essay and the production of a digital campaign in the field of Environmental Education and/or Sustainable Development that will constitute the group work component.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	35,00
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Total:	63,00

Eligibility for exams

The adopted evaluation model presupposes compliance with attendance in accordance with the law for the remaining courses of the Faculty and without prejudice to the provisions of article 9, paragraph 4, of the evaluation regulation.

 

According to the evaluation method of the course, the student obtains the frequency of the course unit if, having been regularly enrolled, does not exceed the limit of absences corresponding to 25% and present the collective and individual work by the date stipulated in the annual calendar.

 

The non-performance / presentation of some activity provided for in the evaluation methods will result in an  examination that contemplates the objectives defined for the collective work and the individual work. In this case, the test will have the value of 100%, and no classification of the distributed evaluation will be considered

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification, on a scale of 0 to 20, corresponds to the average of the project work classification (40%) and the written work (60%), both individual components. Students who have a negative classification or do not deliver the expected work will take an examination of all the contents developed in the course.

Observations

Considerando as recomendações operacionais de manutenção das atividades letivas e não letivas em regime presencial, mas na impossibilidade de garantir o funcionamento presencial da totalidade das atividades letivas do 1º semestre de 2020/2021 no atual contexto pandémico, por falta de instalações físicas capazes de acomodar com segurança o número de estudantes deste ciclo de estudos, a componente [T ou TP] desta UC [ou esta UC] decorrerá [total ou parcialmente] a distância, com momentos síncronos, fazendo uso de meios telemáticos.