6th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES and DEVELOPMENT
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SETÚBAL (PORTUGAL), 21-23 JUNIO, 2018
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1 António Almeida
Professor at Lisbon School of Education,
PORTUGAL
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