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HUM-489: Comment enseigner la durabilité I

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Impliquez-vous dans l'éducation à la durabilité grâce aux théories de l'apprentissage, à la facilitation et les réflexions sur l'écosysteme d'éducation. Développez vos compétences pour enseigner des problèmes complexes et encadrer des étudiant·es de bachelor dans un cours de durabilité (ENV-101).

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Helena Kovacs

Helena is a social scientist with an appetite for a wide variety of topics related to education. Her current work focuses on exploring changes in teaching methods and approaches, strategies of adaptability, and pedagogical innovations at EPFL. Next to this, Helena works on developing a better understanding of teaching and learning transversal skills, with a particular interest in teaching ethics across the engineering curriculum, and she also works on examining the aspects of project based learning from students' and teachers' perspectives. In her previous work, Helena has done research on characteristics of teacher learning in innovative learning environments in schools across Hungary and Portugal, and she has also worked on studying identity formation through curricular material, such as history and language textbooks, across the Balkan countries. Helena holds a PhD in educational sciences obtained as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and from University of Lisbon, and a MA in educational policy and management from Aarhus University and Deusto University thought the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. She has worked as a consultant for Technopolis Group in UK and prior to that Helena was a trainee with the Directorate -General for Education and Culture at the European Commission.

Augustin Fragnière

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Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/HUM-489

Summary

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Helena Kovacs

Augustin Fragnière

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/HUM-489

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