António Almeida is a
Coordinator Professor at Lisbon School
of Education, where he is responsible
for the coordination of the Master
Course in the 1st cycle of Primary
Education and of the 2nd Cycle in
Mathematics and Science. He is also
coordinator of the Science Education
Area in that institution. He has been
responsible for several courses for
in-service teacher training in
Didactics of Science, Environmental
Education and Outdoor Education. He
has published several books and
articles in international journals in
the fields of Environmental Education,
Environmental Ethics, Didactic of
Science and in Geoscience Education.
He is also the author of books on
literature for children in Portuguese
(Dono de Tudo, Alerta no Zoo e Poupa
Poupada) based on ecological issues
and dealing with the relationship
between human and other living beings.
Presently, he is the coordinator of
the projects GLOCAL-agir and
PREDINATUR dedicated to the promotion
of the visitation to natural areas.
RESUMEN SIMPOSIO INVITADO
Outdoor
education and the importance of
natural areas
This symposium includes five
presentations which highlight the
importance of outdoor activities in
natural areas and their implication in
teaching practice.
The presentations are the following:
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development: the contribution of
outdoor education and the importance
of natural areas for its achievement.
How important are outdoor activities
in teaching practice? A research with
Portuguese teachers
Pre-service teachers’ knowledge about
the Tagus River: Implications for
teaching practice
Outdoor education and
interdisciplinarity: a connection
between Science and Mother Tongue
The GLOCAL-agir Project: a way to
connect natural and urban areas
The symposium begins with a
presentation based on the documental
analysis of the text of the Agenda
2030 for Sustainable Development and
analyses how the contact with natural
areas is essential to achieve its
principles. The following presentation
is a study that checks the relevance
attributed by more than one hundred
Portuguese teachers to outdoor
activities. Then, a study with
pre-service teachers is focused on the
identification of their knowledge
about the River Tagus and how they
view the river as an educational
resource. An interdisciplinary
experience with pre-service teachers
is related after and shows how the
students articulate objectives of
science and language in an outdoor
activity to a natural area. Finally,
it is reported the content of a
project that articulating the
visitation of natural areas with a
dynamics of reforestation of the
campus of an institution.
COMUNICACIONES
EN EL SIMPOSIO
The 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development: the
contribution of outdoor education
and the importance of natural
areas for its achievement
Rafael Sumozas /Facultad de
Educación de Ciudad Real,
Universidad de Castilla-La Macha
(España); Beatriz Galindo
/Universiad Nacional de Educación
a Distancia (España)
How important are outdoor
activities in teaching practice? A
research with Portuguese teachers
Valter Rato /Centro
Interdisciplinar de Estudos
Educacionais; António
Almeida/Instituto Politécnico de
Lisboa – Centro Interdisciplinar
de Estudos Educacionais
What do pre-service teachers
really know about ecosystems
nearby? A case study about the
Tagus River in Portugal.
António Almeida /Instituto
Politécnico de Lisboa – Centro
Interdisciplinar de Estudos
Educacionais; Beatriz García
Fernández /Facultad de Educación
de Ciudad Real, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha; Valter
Rato /Centro Interdisciplinar de
Estudos Educacionais
Outdoor education and
interdisciplinarity: a connection
between Science and Mother Tongue
Carolina Gonçalves /Instituto
Politécnico de Lisboa, Escola
Superior de Educação de Lisboa;
Centro Interdisciplinar de
Ciências Sociais CICS.NOVA -
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e
Humanas - Universidade Nova de
Lisboa (CICS.NOVA.FCSH/UNL);
António Almeida / Instituto
Politécnico de Lisboa – Centro
Interdisciplinar de Estudos
Educacionais
The GLOCAL-agir Project: a way to
connect natural and urban areas
Bianor Valente /Instituto
Politécnico de Lisboa - Centro
Interdisciplinar de Estudos
Educacionais; António Almeida /
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa –
Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos
Educacionais
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