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485-333 Geography C8: Education, Environment and Technology

Note: This subject qualifies as a Link Study. Students may not gain credit for this subject and Science Education C5.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 8.3

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: 16.7 credit points in Year 2 Geography subjects, or approved equivalent.

Contact: A 2-hour tutorial each week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate knowledge of a range of perspectives on environmental education, and to consider their implications for the study of geography;
• appreciate the mutually reinforcing role of content and process in environmental education;
• conduct environmental research and to consider how it might be applied in a teaching context; and
• understand the mechanisms by which environmental decisions are made in more affluent countries and to evaluate the role of direct and indirect action in influencing policy direction.

Content:

People-environment issues with a particular focus on more affluent countries. Topics selected from: the people-environment perspective; values and action; techniques for environmental management; futures; implications for the geography curriculum and classroom practice.

Assessment:

One written assignment of approximately 2,500 words (100 per cent).

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