MON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Semester 2000 ?
Dr. David Zandvliet
EDUC 452 - 8
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& David Brown
Environmental Education ?
Office: MPX 8501
Phone: 291-5680
D01.00
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E-mail: dbz@sfu.ca
Mondays & Fridays 8:30-16:20 ?
dbrown@sfu.ca
PREREQUISITE
Educ 401/402
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine the educational problems entailed in developing human awareness and
understanding of the environment. The course will explore environmental issues through a
multidisciplinary approach and will relate historical and contemporary issues in
human-environment interactions to school curricula from the elementary to the secondary level.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
In this course students will
• develop appropriate models and methods for the learning and teaching of Environmental
Education (EE) in both formal and informal educational settings.
• critically evaluate available Environmental Education (EE) instructional materials and resources
from a variety of sources including WWW, video and print based materials.
• compare and contrast the Integrated Resource Packages (IRPs) and Resource guidelines published
by the Ministry of Education with other EE guidelines published internationally.
• consider a variety of perspectives in the interpretation of Environmental Education (EE)
including regulatory, socio-economic, legalistic, aesthetic and scientific frameworks.
REQUIREMENTS
Students will complete the following course assignments and will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis:
1.
Develop and present lesson plans for the educational use of EE resources.
2.
Prepare a written evaluation of an EE educational resource available in print or on the WWW.
3.
Develop a plan for Environmental education at the classroom, school or district level.
4.
Synthesize a reflective journal on individual learning experiences during the course.
COURSE READINGS
Readings will be provided from a variety government, on-line sources and current education
journals. There will be no required textbook but a small fee will be charged to cover copying.
