Bachelor of Outdoor and Sustainability Education

La Trobe University

From conservation to exploration, there’s a rewarding future waiting for you in the great outdoors. Turn your passion for the natural world into a career connecting with your community and the world around you.La Trobe's Bachelor of Outdoor and Sustainability Education takes you beyond the classroom. Get hands-on outdoor experience and build a deeper understanding of sustainability and environmental education.La Trobe's Bachelor of Outdoor and Sustainability Education takes you beyond the classroom. Get hands-on outdoor experience and build a deeper understanding of sustainability and environmental education.You'll also be ready to help foster respect and appreciation for the world around you. Explore the social and scientific aspects of sustainability, including Indigenous understandings of our environment, and learn how to manage and teach outdoor education programs.Describe and analyse aspects of the relationships between place, knowledge, meaning making and experience.Discuss and evaluate the ideas and sociocultural beliefs that have shaped the way people perceive and interact within a more-than-human world. Articulate and evaluate philosophies, trends and issues that inform outdoor and sustainability education. Demonstrate understanding of curriculum considerations and educational philosophies underpinning outdoor and sustainability education, including the ability to critically examine aims and purposes of outdoor experiences.Demonstrate safe living and travel skills on a variety of extended journeys in outdoor environments, Apply suitable safety planning and risk management specific to outdoor and sustainability education, Apply suitable safety planning and risk management specific to outdoor and sustainability education, Critically reflect on, and evaluate theoretical perspectives of programme design, curriculum and pedagogical approaches in the context of one's own learning and teaching practice

• Climate Change
• Outdoor Education

School of Education

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