Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500260 Social Education | OT | 3 | 2 |
2500260 Social Education | OT | 4 | 0 |
2500261 Education Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
2500797 Early Childhood Education | OT | 4 | 0 |
2500798 Primary Education | OT | 4 | 0 |
There are no previous requirements.
Life can no longer be sustained in the planet the way we live today. Our way of life is suffering from a generalized crisis as a consequence of human activities which can be approached through different dimensions: ecological, climate, economic, social, political, health ... The hegemonic and capitalist economic paradigm is so powerful that prevents human beings from imagining alternative realities where market society is not the only way to organize social relationships.
To overcome this narrow way of seeing we need to acquire and educational approach that promotes critical awareness so that an Eco citizenship can be developed. This implies to educate people to act in a committed and responsible way, and to be capable of making individual and collective decisions from a social and environmental justice perspective. Education is seen as a holistic activity that goes through the whole life span and involves a diversity of dimensions. This process is called Eco social Education or Education for Sustainability open to the political, economic and environmental interconnected dimensions of human life. Education is seen as a process of Eco literacy that facilitates the understanding of socioecological systems and its derived inequalities and conflicts from the ecological and feminist economical perspective.
Education for sustainability is a key process within the construction of new imaginaries and alternative models based on the following: social and economic justice, food souvereignity, responsible consumption, ecological integrity, solidarity economy, ways of sustainable life, respect towards all forms of life, solid values that facilitate social cohesion, democracy and collective action, critical thinking, historical perspective etc. A dialogue with other cosmovisions of the relationship between nature, society and economy will be also considered.
The subject will focus on the role of educators and the diversity of professional profiles that establish links between education, sustainability and consumption. Through the semester, students will have the opportunity to know educational initiatives that act as lighthouses within education for sustainability and which include a diversity of contexts such as community food gardens, cooperatives, and community initiatives among others. The work will be based on local contexts such as university food gardens or the simulation of a work cooperative, to facilitate the necessary understanding of what is happening and can be done at a local scale that might have an impact at a global scale.
Objectives:
Socio-environmental problems: Analysis of conflicts and inequalities from the framework of ecological and feminist economy.
New imaginaries: degrowth, social economy, solidarity based economy, responsible consumption, food souvereignity
Cooperativism and work cooperatives: an organization at the service of people.
From Environmental Education to Education for Sustainability: Historical perspective, evolution, and cartography of approaches.
Education for Sustainability: Aims, objectives, key components and methodological approaches
Critical thinking in Education for Sustainability and Consumer Education.
Context of Education for Sustainability: Social and community food gardens.
Strategies of Education for Sustainability and Consumer Education: Acting in formal, non-formal and informal contexts
Professional competences in Education for Sustainability and Consumer Education
The design of educational projects and materials for Education for Sustainability and Consumer Education
The students is considered the protagonist of the teaching and learning processes and this principle has oriented the educational methodology of this subject. We will depart from students’ knowledge, attitudes and dispositions to act, and different types of activities will be used to guarantee the attention to diversity and the acquisition of students’ competences. Students will work in small groups as well as whole classroom organization to promote reflection and analysis through strategies and methodologies coming from popular education. Work outside the classroom to discover the local environment will be prioritized. Students will have the opportunity to Visits social and community food gardens, as well as other initiatives promoting social and solidarity economy. All activities will be articulated around the creation of a cooperative.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Explanation by teacher staff of the content and key issues of the module program. It is done with the whole group class and allows exposure of the main content through an open and active participation by students. | 38.5 | 1.54 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Workspace in small groups supervised by teachers for analysis or processing activities and / or curriculum materials, study and / or resolution of cases, field activities and / or laboratory in order to go deep into the themes proposed. | 70 | 2.8 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Analysis of readings, educational innovation proposals, design of activities, preparing reports, analysis and resolution of cases, field work | 32.5 | 1.3 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
The evaluation will be continuous along the semester and will include both individual and group work. The specific evaluation activities and the deadlines are the following:
Cooperative group activities (45%)
Individual activities (55%):
Attendance is compulsory and a minimum of 80% is required in order to be eligible for evaluation. To get a pass grade a minimum of 5/10 is necessary.in all assessment activities. To be eligible for a making-up test, an average of a 3,5 mark for the subject will be necessary. The make-up test can be either an individual test or a group test offered during the UAB week exams. To pass this subject matter students need to show the acquisition of communicative competences (oral and written) and a good command of the languages specified in the Teaching Guide of the subject. Students are expected to show a high level of reading comprehension of academic texts, to express themselves orally in a fluid and correct way, and to write texts that are linguistically and formally correct. An activity can be rejected it does not follow the above-mentioned criteria.
According to the Facultat de Ciències de l’Educació (UAB) regulations (Acord Comissió Ordenació Acadèmica, 4 juny 2014), students will fail the exams if they engage into either copying or plagiarism behavior. Any paper or exam will be categorized as copied when it reproduces parts or the whole of another student’s material. A paperor an exam is considered plagiarism when it is presented as one’s own without mentioning the original sources.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Cooperative group work | 50% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
Individual face exam | 15% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
Individual work and participation | 35% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 3, 4, 2 |
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NOTA: al llarg del curs es podrà recomanar altra bibliografia que es cregui adequada.