WebQuest
Protecting Nature by Making Conservation Management Plans
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In this globalized era, many individuals around the world are becoming members of multiple language and sociocultural networks due to factors such as socioeconomic and geopolitical restructuring, increased international migrant mobility, growing minority rights movements, and revolutionary communication technologies.
UNESCO works to assist countries to invest in science, technology and innovation (STI), to develop national science policies, to reform their science systems and to build capacity to monitor and evaluate performance through STI indicators and statistics taking into account the broad range of country-specific contexts.Science policies are not enough. Science and engineering education at all levels and research capacity need to be built to allow countries to develop their own solutions to their specific problems and to play their part in the international scientific and technological arena. Linking science to society, public understanding of science and the participation of citizens in science are essential to creating societies where people have the necessary knowledge to make professional, personal and political choices, and to participate in the stimulating world of discovery. Indigenous knowledge systems developed with long and close interaction with nature, complement knowledge systems based on modern science.
Science and technology empower societies and citizens but also involve ethical choices. UNESCO works with its member States to foster informed decisions about the use of science and technology, in particular in the field of bioethics. Water is fundamental for life and ensuring water security for communities worldwide is essential to peace and sustainable development. The scientific understanding of the water cycle, the distribution and characteristics of surface and groundwater, of urban water all contribute to the wise management of freshwater for a healthy environment and to respond to human needs.Scientific knowledge of the Earth�s history and mineral resources, knowledge of ecosystems and biodiversity, and the interaction of humans with ecosystems are important to help us understand how to manage our planet for a peaceful and sustainable future.
Learning: The Treasure Within, UNESCO
Standards
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
1. Developing enquiries across subject boundaries.
2. Linking the local and global.
3. Holistic approaches to ESDGC including wellbeing, the spiritual, the emotional, etc.
B: Criticality - using multiple perspectives, seeing approaches and issues as contested:
4. Developing criticality in learners.
5. Engaging with controversial and difficult issues.
6. Pedagogy that encourages participation, engagement, collaboration and critical enquiry.
C: Transformative and creative:
7. ESDGC as a pedagogy of hope.
8. Enabling innovation and creativity.
9. Navigating the changing educational and political context.
10. Educators as agents of change
Credits
The ideas behind this WebQuest were he results of the work of many teachers in Wales and England who have made contributions to the 'Schools and Communities Agenda 21 Network' since its inception in the 'St Clears Teacher's Resource Centre' in 1994.
There have also been important contributions from the group of Cambridgeshire teachers who were part of the working group which produced 'Natural Economy' as the knowledge framework for the subject of the same name produced for the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate's International GCSE.
The concept of 'cultural ecology was developed within the Natural Economy Research Unit in the zoology department of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff by Denis Bellamy (FLS), Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales at Cardiff as part of the European Schools Network.
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Search for meaning in life.
Description: What can nature conservation do?
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