Invitation to
Ph.D.-course
The Relationships between Learning, Action and Participation within
Health and Environmental Education
Date: 14 - 18 May 2001 in Denmark at the Research Centre for
Environmental and Health Education, The Danish University of Education,
Copenhagen.
Content of the course: a number of current pressing issues, such as
'ideologies within health and environmental education',
'constructivistic learning theories', and 'action, action competence and
empowerment as cross cultural concepts within health and environmental
education - newest research findings'.
Form of the course: a combination of lectures, discussions and
presentations of own projects.
Fee: There is no course fee but participants are expected to cover their
own expenses regarding travel, accommodation and meals.
Closing date for application: 1 March 2001.
Application form as well as further information on the course and the
host institution follow below.
Detailed information:
Content:
· different ideologies within health and environmental education
· the concept of participation, its limits and possibilities for health
and environmental education
· constructivistic learning theories and their relevance for health and
environmental education
· democratic perspectives in health and environmental education
· action, action competence and empowerment as cross cultural concepts
within health and environmental education - newest research findings
· evaluation - challenges for research and practice
· action research and dialogue research as research methods - limits and
possibilities
· the course is about health and environmental education in general,
There will, however, be a special focus on learning processes in schools
and on schools' collaboration with the community
Form:
A combination of lectures, discussions and presentations of own projects
will be held in a workshop format during the week. A number of selected
articles and books will be circulated in due time ahead of the course
and is considered to form the shared background for the course. The
working language at the course will be English. A detailed programme
will be send out in the middle of April 2001.
Additional options:
A limited number of participants will have the opportunity to stay at
the university for a longer or shorter period after the course.
Individual supervision by members of the Research Centre as well as
access to various working facilities (work-space, access to PC and the
National Library of Education) will be offered. Please ask for further
information as soon as possible if interested.
The National Library of Education:
The University also hosts the National Library of Education, which is
the principal scholarly library specialising in pedagogy and education
as well as various disciplines within the subject of psychology. It
stocks nearby 900.000 volumes and it is considered to be the biggest of
its kind in Northern Europe.
Application:
The enclosed application form has to be filled out and returned no later
than 1 March 2001. The form should be send or mailed to secretary Nina
Rasmussen, Danish University of Education, the Ph.D. Office, Emdrupvej
101, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark (e-mail: [log in to unmask])
There is no course fee but participants are expected to cover their own
expenses regarding travel and accommodation/meals during the course
period. The Research Centre for Environmental and Health Education will
be happy to assist in finding suitable accommodation for those who are
interested (see application form).
Responsible for the course:
Bjarne Bruun Jensen, associate professor ([log in to unmask])
Søren Kruse, lecturer ([log in to unmask])
Karsten Schnack, professor ([log in to unmask])
Lene Dahlberg, secretary ([log in to unmask])
About The Research Centre of Environmental and Health Education
The Research Centre is based at the Danish University of Education,
which has the task to carry out postgraduate, masters and Ph.D.
programmes within the field of education and psychology. Besides that
research is carried out in areas related to education, pedagogy and
psychology.
The research centre consists of 16 academics coming from a number of
different areas such as Philosophy, Curriculum Studies, Biology,
Domestic Science, Social Science, Pedagogy and Geography. The research
approaches varies between action research, empirical (quantitative as
well as qualitative) research and research in development of concepts
and theories within an action-oriented environmental and health
education.
Over the years, so-called research-based development work has assumed
increasing importance, and the research centre often co-operates with
local education authorities and with individual teachers on projects of
this kind.
The research-based developmental work, which is an action research
approach, has been in focus in many of the research projects carried out
by the research centre. Within this framework it has been the aim to
develop, "test" and evaluate new strategies within environmental and
health education. An important part has been to identify current
tendencies, barriers and possibilities within the field of Environmental
and Health Education. The crucial element within this research paradigm
has been the dialogue between researchers and schools, mainly
represented by teachers. Three projects carried out recently are
examples of this research approach:
1. Children as catalyst of environmental change
A research project running for three years. The partners were
researchers, staff and pupils at three schools and the technical
department at the municipality. The tasks were to explore barriers,
conditions and possibilities for developing an action-oriented
environmental education with a two-fold aim: 1) to initiate actions and
changes within the field of environment within the community and 2) to
support pupils in acquiring the abilities to take action for improving
the environment. The main outcome of the project is the identification
of a number of conditions that have to be in place if environmental
education and schools should meet the demands of the school (pupils
action competence) and the community (environmental changes) at the same
time.
2. MUVIN (Environmental Education within the Nordic countries)
The MUVIN project is a combination of teacher training, experimental
teaching, action research and educational research, all related to
Environmental Education with the aim of enhancing pupils' action
competence. Nearly 100 schools and more than 300 teachers have
participated, within the period 1994-97. Each class had the challenge to
work with conflicting interests related to (local) environmental issues.
The "democracy in the class room" aspects have been much in focus for
all related activities and many different approaches have been tested.
From the basis of this project the "New Generation of Environmental
Education" has been developed.
3. Danish Network of Health Promoting Schools
During the past 5 years the Danish network has been part of the European
Network of Health Promoting Schools. The overall aim of the Danish
network has been to develop a notion of a health promoting school that
is in harmony with Danish cultural and pedagogical traditions of
"Education for and with democracy". All schools have - in collaboration
with the researchers connected - been working with three issues: 1)
exploring new and innovative strategies for developing pupils' action
competence within the health area, 2) developing strategies for schools
collaboration with the local community on an action-oriented health
education and 3) integrating an international dimension. One of the
outcomes has been the identification of two competing paradigms: A
Moralistic and a Democratic health education.
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Application form:
Name of course:
Name of applicant:
Contact address:
Tel. No:
E-mail address:
Is assistance needed for reservation of accommodation:
Enrolled as Ph.D.-student at the following institution:
Title and brief description of Ph.D.-project (100-200 words):
Expected year for Ph.D.-defence:
Bjarne Bruun Jensen
Research Center for Environmental and Health Education
Danish University of Education
Emdrupvej 101, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV. DENMARK
Tel: +45 39 69 66 33
Fax: +45 39 66 70 10
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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