A systemic approach in Environmental Education

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A systemic approach in Environmental Education

• Jan Cincera
• The Technical University of Liberec
• Czech Republic
• jan.cincera_at_tul.cz

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Content

• Introduction
• Goal setting
• Curricula goals
• Group goals
• Games
• Meaning
• Sequencing
• Evaluation
• Experience

MicroTrail, 2005. Focus on details
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Introduction

• The question of behavioral changes
• Deep experience for shaping awareness
• Game-based methodology
• Integrated thematic instructions
• Constructivism, global education, Earth
  Education, experiential education
• Cooperation of Technical University, scouts,
  NGOs, students

Passports students portfolio. Secondary school
project, 2005
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Curricula goals - example
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Group dynamic and group goals
Icebreakers, deinhibitizers
Full Value Contract
Closing
Challenges, role-playing
Trust builders
Cooperative games
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Activities for developing a group
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Meaning of games

• The meaning is co-created by the educational
  context, students preconcepts, previous
  experience
• Teaching as dialogue

Simulation game Forests, Teacher training
course, 2005
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Activity and its meaning
The 20st century experiential drama play
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Sequencing of games

• The Experiential Learning Cycle (Experience
  Reflection Generalization - Transfer)
• The IAA model (Informing Assimilating
  Applying)
• The Learning Cycle Model (Exploration Concept
  Introduction Concept Application)
• The Three-stage Learning Cycle (Evocation
  Realization of Meaning Reflection)

Role-playing game The battle for Upper
Oakville, Secondary school project, 2003
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The Three-stage Learning Cycle

• Evocation
• Realization of new meaning
• Reflection

The Alchymists Game evocation activity about
interconnections in the world, Teacher training
course, 2004
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Evaluation strategies

• Oral or written debriefing of
• activities,
• topics,
• concepts
• Questionnairies
• Changes in awareness and attitudes

Debriefing sessions. Secondary school project,
2004.
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Experience
I have missed (before the course) the feeling,
the experience, the sympathy with all living
beings
I have deepen my sensitivity for perception of
the nature around me, I have learned many ways
for playing with nature. Excerpts from the
written debriefing of a participant of the
teacher training course, 2006