Environmental Education Projects as a Framework for Transformative Learning: Practice Insights from the field of Teacher Training
Abstract
Relevant theoretical texts discuss the teaching through the Arts and its contribution to an integrated learning. This paper is an attempt to briefly present a locally focused environmental education project that through transformational learning tried to increase teachers’, pupils’ and generally public awareness and knowledge of heritage issues and to provide the skills that participants need to make appropriate decisions and take actions towards their environment. The first part of this paper describes the whole project as applied in 2000. In the second part, as an attempt to update the above project, an example of A. Kokkos’ method “Transformative Learning through an aesthetical experience” and the model of systematic observation of works of art as developed by D. Perkins are being analyzed step by step regarding the above mentioned teacher’s training. At the final part of the paper one can find conclusions regarding the use of art in the above training example.
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Μανάβη Χ. (2016). Environmental Education Projects as a Framework for Transformative Learning: Practice Insights from the field of Teacher Training. Journal of Research in Education and Training, 9(2), 144–173. https://doi.org/10.12681/jret.8686
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