Making the circular economy work for human development
Piia Nurmi 30.9.2020
This material is
• material for teachers to discuss circular economy and the well-being of people with sudents. It consists of:
• A video lecture by Alexandre Lemille
• Questions/tasks for students
• An outline of the course to the teachers
• The material is suitable for students from all study backgrouds
• The video was funded by Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture as part of Kiertotalousosaamista ammattikorkeakouluihin (KiertotalousAMK) project (https://kiertotalousamk.turkuamk.f/)
Workload
• Teachers can use this material in any way they wish as part of their courses
• If the teacher wants to form this material into a 1 ECTS part of the course, then this line of workload could be followed:
• prediscussions with the students (3h)
• students read an article (6h)
• students watch a video (1h)
• discussions with the students (3h)
• learning diary by the students (14h)
• All of these can be done online
The video:
https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=vO
j0Op47vwI&t=12s
A recommended article:
https://doi.org/10 .1016/j.resconrec.
2020.104686
prediscussions with the students (3h)
• discussing the basic concepts
• circular economy
• Human development
• SDGs
• dicussion on how do these topics come across in your own study feld
• discussion: have we studied these topics before?
• discussion: why would these topics be of interest to me personally, to
Finland or globally?
discussions with the stundents after the video and the article (3h)
• what did we learn about the basic concepts
• circular economy
• Human development
• SDGs
• dicussion on how do these topics come across in your own study feld
• discussion: why would these topics be of interest to me personally, to Finland or globally?
• discussion: what things should everyone on my study feld learn about these issues?
learning diary by the students (14h)
• questions recommended for the learning diary
• a list of hours spent on the different parts of the course
• what were my expectations on the topic?
• what did I learn?
• what did I not learn?
• why was the video made and by whom? Pros and cons of the video?
• why was the article made and by whom? Pros and cons of the article?
• what would I now tell about the topic to my friends?
