Systemic Ecological Approach in Teacher Education: Ecological Didactic Model of Students' Pedagogical Practice

• Authors: Irēna Katane
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the ecological didactic model of students' as prospective teachers' pedagogical practice. The model has been developed to facilitate university students' systemic ecological thinking, professional development, including the development of various competences, and their successful integration within the multilevel, multicomponent, and multifunctional environment of a comprehensive school. The model describes a comprehensive school as multilevel and multifunctional environment, where the students (trainees) and the teachers (supervisors of training) are integral parts of such environment. The functioning of a triad - a university lecturer - supervisor of pedagogical practice, a student, and a supervisor of pedagogical practice at school - as an interactional system is significant for the model. The principles of organization, implementation, and evaluation of the pedagogical practice and the didactic requirements for the students have been developed within the given model. At present this model is under the theoretical and practical approbation.

Keywords

EN

ecological didactic model; systemic ecological thinking; educational environment of school; pedagogical practice

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 40-54

Dates

published

2007-01-01

online

2009-05-04

Contributors

author

Irēna Katane

• Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-009-0004-7