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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Sustainability & GEO Education
Module Code SG303 (ITS) / EDP1087 (Banner)
Faculty DCU Institute of Education School STEM Ed, Innov, Global Studies
Module Co-ordinatorBenjamin Mallon
Module TeachersJoe Usher
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
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Description

Sustainability in Geography, Environmental and Outdoor Education

Learning Outcomes

1. Engage with a range of Geographical, Environmental and Outdoor Education resources, including schools and their localities;
2. Critically engage in with GEO and broader educational theories, demonstrating an understanding of the importance of local contexts of learning for children;
3. Demonstrate confident theoretical, subject and pedagogic content knowledge to teach, locally based GEO topics in primary schools;
4. Design competency in planning and resourcing engaging learning opportunities, incorporating the use of ICTs in GEO education;
5. Demonstrate a secure knowledge and understanding of the Primary School Curriculum and other policy documents related to GEO Education;



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture12No Description
Assignment Completion24No Description
Fieldwork6No Description
Workplace application6Work with schools
Total Workload: 48

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Outline of content and activity
The course will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of leading Geography, Environmental and Outdoor (GEO) Education through the development of students’ pedagogical and content knowledge and their understanding of education for sustainability, through geography, environmental and outdoor education. This course will be taught through teacher inquiry, with significant student input relating to the structure and content of the sessions. The course will involve students: • Developing their own subject knowledge in sustainability, through research and attendance at relevant places and events; • Working with each other to prepare, plan and teach lessons in GEO education on sustainability topics; • Engaging in fieldwork related to GEO Education, with and without pupils from local schools. The use of technology, in schools and ITE, will be embedded within sessions. Links to literacy and numeracy will be explicitly explored.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Professional PortfolioPortfolio on one sustainability topic100%Week 30
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List

  • All on Loop, as list is current for September 2022: 2022, All on Loop, ALL ON LOOP
  • Dolan, A.M.: 2022, Teaching Climate Change in Primary Schools: an Interdisciplinary Approach., Routledge, London,
  • Scoffham, S. and Rawlinson, S.: 2022, Sustainability Education: a classroom guide., London, London,
  • Mallon, B.: 2021, 'Global citizenship education: Interconnection, social justice and sustainability' In: Teaching For Social Justice And Sustainable Development Across The Primary Curriculum.,
  • Kavanagh, A.M.;Waldron, F.;Mallon, B.: 2021, 'Teaching for social justice and sustainable development across the primary curriculum: An introduction' In: Teaching For Social Justice And Sustainable Development Across The Primary Curriculum.,
Other Resources

None

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