The project aims to develop comprehensive educational materials for children aged 6–15 years and their teachers that would tackle a broad range of school subject areas with contemporary relevance. In this effort, landscape signifies not only physical surroundings but it is rather a platform, medium, source of information, inspiration but also affection that can be used with advantage in the educational process.

Why Landscape?

Landscape as an integrating concept that relates to a wide range of contemporary societal challenges.

Landscape as a medium to bring together and integrate different subject areas within the school curriculum in a stimulating and satisfying way.

Landscape as a functional framework in the context of modern educational methods such as competence-oriented education, problem-oriented teaching, place-based education, inquiry education etc. All these methods emphasize individualisation of educational processes and connection to real-life situations and personal involvement.

Results

Eduscape Methodology elaborated layout for the general topic of landscape in education related to the societal challenges of today's world on the one side and school curriculum on the other, so that it fills in the gaps, links individual subjects and supports future-oriented curricula. The Methodology sets the basic road map of the learning through landscape approach.

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Eduscape educational/learning materials are grouped in educational Units adjusted to different age groups of children. Process based learning process leads the children from gaining practical and theoretical information while mapping and analyzing directly in their close environment to defying the problems and tasks as well as designing and making solutions. Learning materials can be used by children/pupils (and their educators) in both formal and informal education.

Instructional ready to-use toolkits connected to the specified educational Units for teachers are offering practical instructions on how to use the materials. They also include expert information on specific topics related to the landscape, with the aim of highlighting their importance in the context of current challenges and the need to integrate them into education. The thematic teaching block is divided into activities that can be used separately or in a sequence during a project day. In addition, teachers are provided with ideas for developing long-term projects based on thesespecific landscape topics.

The Eduscape digital platform as an OER enables sharing of structured educational materials in an interactive form which enables users to engage in virtual learning/teaching activities, taking short quizes to gain important feedback on their earned knowledge as well as download all of the educational outputs. In order to navigate through and search for specific topics or learning activities the platform offers an easy to use Catalogue with the filter function. In addition, the platform contains a video record of multiplier events and training seminars for users.

The summary of the state of research and development in terms of publications, existing approaches, research initiatives, studies, projects, media, illustrations, photos,videos of existing study cases, practical examples, etc. related to and relevant to the project’s overall topics sorted into a comprehensive database. Available to all interested users as an additional source of references online and as a downloadable pdf.

Eduscape Review of Literature, Media and Resources