Classrooms Towards a Sustainable Society: Engineering and Architecture from Compulsory Education. An Experience in Secondary Level at International Conference on Engineering 2015

International Conference on Engineering 2015. University of Beira Interior. Covilhã, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-654-261-1

The introduction of didactic strategies to educate in engineering and architecture from compulsory education could provide, from early levels, more interested students to be formed in their specific areas such as built environment and their ecological impact. 

An educational experience in middle-level education and its theoretical support was presented at this International Conference, from which a wide range of concepts, skills and attitudes  could be managed in the classroom to enable pupils, from the empirical experience, to be participants in sustainability problems, approaching to their scientific basis and analysing the way architecture and engineering work together for a better ambience.

Sensitizing students in these terms would allow them to become environmently conscious citiziens, strengthening the ties that relate them to the physical, social, scientific and cultural agents towards a better -and more responsible - experience of the place in which they will develop their lives.

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