00455 - Geography

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

- knowledge of physical processes;

- knowledge of key-themes of Human Geograhy, Economic Geography, Political Geography;

- capability in identify natural and human features in a given landscape (with a specific focus on the Italian landscape);

- skills in using graphs, maps, satellite images, also in Didactics contexts;

- awareness about local/global perspectives;

- active awareness about the concept of Sustainable Development and its application at school (Environmental Education).

Course contents

Geomorphology and Climatology

The Landscape: Human and Natural Features

Issues in Human Geography and Political-Economic Geography (Population, Man-Environment Interactions, Economic Sectors, Themes of Political Geography).

The Tools of Geography: graphs, maps, satellite images

Didactics of Geography and Environmental Education

Readings/Bibliography

Notes from the Lectures

P. Dagradi, C. Cencini, Compendio di geografia umana, Bologna, Pàtron, 2003.

C. Giorda, M. Puttilli, Educare al territorio, educare il territorio. Geografia per la formazione, Roma, Carocci, 2011.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Workshops

Assessment methods

Written test, made up of short essays and closed-ended questions.

Teaching tools

PPT Presentations, uploaded on the website http://campus.cib.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Piastra