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In this Course you will :

• Know the historic “roots” of conservation and environmental education.
• Discover current trends in today’s young people that have changed in the last 20 years.
• Understand “Nature-Deficit Disorder” and what can be done to combat it.
• Understand principles of environmental education.
• Use “Inquiry” and “Place-based” teaching method in field settings.
• Understand relationships among people, social and natural systems.
• Apply investigative skills to solve problems.
• Apply the “Awareness to Action” Environmental Education model.
• Learn techniques that create effective education and outreach programs for conservation and environmental education.
• Apply Environmental Education to MN’s Graduation Standards and the Profiles of Learning.
• Decipher the difference from Environmental Education and Interpretation
• Use Interpretation to communicate to informal Environmental Education audiences.

Meeting time and location: Tuesdays, 5:10 p.m. – 8:10 p.m. 19 Green Hall, St. Paul Campus

This course will take a critical view of Environmental Education, its history, theories, methodologies, and assessments with the aim to make students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the Environmental Education field.

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