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University of Glasgow - Ecopedagogy for Beginners: Putting Climate Change Education Into Action 

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Overview

Explore practical approaches to teaching sustainability and taking effective climate action in school settings.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,093

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Ecopedagogy for Beginners: Putting Climate Change Education Into Action
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion
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Ecopedagogy for Beginners: Putting Climate Change Education Into Action
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Course details

More about this course
  • Ecopedagogy aims to raise ecological consciousness and create momentum for climate action
  • This practice is hugely important in education to ensure students are actively involved in the fight against the climate crisis
  • This four-week course from the University of Glasgow follows the course to help learner implement ecopedagogy in educational settings
  • Learner will discover practical approaches and useful activities to help engage with students and encourage them to take climate action
  • Crucially, learner will gain the tools to measure the impact of educational practices to ensure they are working
  • Learner will discover why it is an effective route for climate action
  • Next, learner will explore techniques learner can implement in the classroom to ensure climate education is interesting and effective
  • Throughout the course, learner will discover practical actions to create more sustainable schools
  • Within this, learner will recognise and learn how to respond to the issue of climate anxiety
  • Learner will also learn how to utilise and embed social justice into schools as learner understand the importance of climate justice and the decolonisation of the curriculum
  • Finally, learner will gain the skills to be able to trace the outcomes of ecopedagogy
  • With this knowledge, learner will ensure teachings are having a positive impact
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Ecopedagogy for Beginners: Putting Climate Change Education Into Action
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Curriculum

Ecopedagogy and critical eco-literacy

Welcome!

Understanding Ecopedagogy

Critical pedagogy basis

Week 1 summary

What does ecopedagogy look like?

Week 2 introduction

Understanding ecoliteracy

Place-based ecopedagogy

Creative approaches to ecopedagogy

Week 2 summary

Creating more sustainable schools by invoking social justice

Week 3 introduction

Embedding justice into schools

Embedding justice into schools: decolonising

Week 3 summary

How do we know if ecopedagogy is effective?

Week 4 introduction

The impacts of ecopedagogy

How to trace impacts of ecopedagogy

Week 4 and course summary

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