Otaniemi Upper Secondary School – Sustainable Future Project
Course code, full name, and status (C/EC/OP)
ET1 (C)
ET4( EC)
Topic
Personal Relationship with Nature and Well-being
Objectives (directly from the National Core Curriculum):
The objective of the module is that the student
- are able to analyse the concepts of perception of the world, personal worldviews and organised worldviews, evaluate the justifications associated with them, and separate worldview and value related issues from matters of opinion
- understand the continuous historical change of views, cultures, and forms of society as well as are able to analyse the traits and starting points of different worldviews on this basis
- are able to analyse and evaluate the significance of evolution, universal ethical systems, the transformation of Europe in the Modern Era, the Enlightenment, science, and the modern market economy on worldviews and the students’ personal worldviews
- are able to evaluate the weight of different values, worldviews, and ways of knowing as well as individual, communal, political, and religious dimensions in different personal and organised worldviews
- are able to analyse the foundations and development of their personal worldviews and the beliefs associated with them and understand that the starting points of personal worldview could have been different.
Content (directly from the National Core Curriculum):
- concepts related to worldviews; worldviews as fundamental ways of perceiving the world and the nature of worldview-related questions
- development of humankind’s capacity to formulate worldviews: significance of evolution, language, and flexible cooperation in the evolution of humans as a species; animism, theism, atheism
- history of worldviews: birth of universal worldviews and moral systems, birth of the modern subject and scientific worldview, belief in progression, and societal differentiation as a source of new types of worldviews
- political worldviews, including liberalism, socialism, and nationalism; manifestations of worldviews in ways of living, arts, sports, and relationship with nature and the environment
- understanding worldviews from the perspective of the history of worldviews; random historical factors in the background of the students’ personal worldviews
More detailed description of content if necessary
The student takes time to reflect on their personal relationship with nature and the role of nature as a source of well-being. The student is able to recognize the well-being effects that nature generates in their own life.
Key concepts
Selfhood, identity, meaning of life, needs, relationship with nature, happiness, life choices