THE EDUCATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ACTIVITIES OF RECREATION AND ACTIVITIES OF TOURISM

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THE EDUCATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH
ACTIVITIES OF RECREATION AND ACTIVITIES OF TOURISM

• Driss BOUMEGGOUTI
• University of Toulouse - Le Mirail

Munich February 2007
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Definition of the project

• It is about setting up modules aimed at emphisize
  the principles of the education to the
  environment through the activities of recreation
  and the activities of tourism realised by the
  pupils and students during their schooling.
• These modules can be taught in the framework of
  classical and general teaching, such as
  geography, sciences of nature, physical and
  sportive activities, etc., or within specific
  programs

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Context 

• Nowadays, the education to the environment
  constitutes a major stake
• Important interests coming from national and
  international decision-making bodies and
  institutions
• Craze in support of the concepts of sustainable
  development, sustainable tourism, fair tourism,
  etc.
• Recognition of morality and of responsibility in
  the approaches linked to the education anbd to
  the development
• Recreations and tourism fill a paramount place
  in our societies and become as well, a mean of
  cultural and educative improvement of the citizen
  approach

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Stakes objectives 

• Paramount place of the recreation and touristic
  activities in the education programs especially
  by means of the outside activities and ground
  visits and fieldtrips
• Gaining interest from the relation linking
  didactic, related to game and hedonistic
  approaches offered by this method
• Very strong impact from the observation and the
  direct contact with the ground activities.
• Methods really appreciated by school public.

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Methodology approach 

• These activities will cover various territories
  and issues 

• The city,
• The countryside,
• The seashore,
• The mountain,
• The forest,

• wastes,
• energy,
• The consumer goods (material and immaterial,
• The agriculture,
• the industry, etc.

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• Participants will be lead up to work on the
  foillowing notions
• Sustainable tourism,
• ecotourism,
• The tourism of economic discovering including the
  industrial tourism,
• Fair tourism,
• Solidarity-based tourism,
• Ethnic tourism,
• etc.

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• The landscaping approach will set up an essential
  method in the modules to settle
• Favour the exchanges of experiences and
  monitoring the modules setting up, especially
  between several element of the education
  structure
• Set up an assessment scale, especially, to
  evaluate the impact in terms of sensibilisation
  to the questions of environment
• Give value to the ability of each participants to
  transfer knowledges and contents

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