Learning objectives
Literacy with regard to environmental issues and familiarity with the main strategies that have been developed to aid in identifying solutions through educational action.
Course unit content
From environmental education to education in sustainability. The course deals with the topic of how education may contribute to solving environmental problems, concentrating in particular on the transformations that have taken place in this field as a result of the increasing importance attached to issues of sustainability.
Bibliography
E. Bardulla, Pedagogia, ambiente, società sostenibile, Rome, Anicia, 1998; <br />
K. Wheeler, A. Perraca Bijur (Eds), Education for a Sustainable Future (A Paradigm of Hope for the 21st Century), New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers), 2000; <br />
Special feature on “Ecologia, sviluppo sostenibile, educazione” in the magazine Orientamenti Pedagogici, no. 6, 2008; <br />
P. Malavasi, Pedagogia verde, Brescia, La Scuola, 2008 <br />