Best Practice Example of Educational Project: Sustainability in Deblín, South Moravia, Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Building Bridges between Cultures through Geographical Education |
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| Web | Proceedings of the IGU-CGE Istanbul Symposium |
| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | Sustainability; Perception; Rural Development; Socially Constructed Rurality; Governance; Rural Policy; Local Community; Spatiality; ESPECT/TODS Approach; Project Training |
| Description | The aim of this paper is an educational project in a study programme of the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in the city of Brno, the school year 2008/09. The sustainability teaching/learning was based on methods such as joint deduction, induction and abduction in study groups, emphasizing fieldwork in the Deblín-town area, near the city of Brno. It was also based on cooperation of the university, primary school Deblín and Deblín-town community. The project also involved the municipal authorities of Tišnov, their Department of Environment and the public administration of Deblín-microregion. We have included the main stakeholders/actors for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment for their important role in cultural landscape ecosystems sustainability. Studying environmental perception and participation, GIS technology application in the framework of multiple method in geographical research based on field survey and remote sensing data offered new knowledge. |