Abstract

CADAVID-VELASQUEZ, Edith de Jesús; PEREZ-VASQUEZ, Nabi del Socorro  and  FLOREZ-NISPERUZA, Elvira Patricia. The value of caring for the environment enhanced from the mother-Earth didactic bond in students of Colombian high school. Entramado [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.2, pp.196-206.  Epub Jan 27, 2022. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.2.6093.

The objective of this qualitative research, which is based on the hermeneutical paradigm, is to analyze from the perspective of high school students the recognition of the "value of care" that their mothers carry out on a daily basis to sustain life at home as a foundation in the design of strategies based on Piaget's assimilation and accommodation learning processes, in order to enhance the mother-Earth didactic bond. 45 students from the Alfonso Builes Correa Educational Institution, from the municipality of Planeta Rica, state of Córdoba, were interviewed and their knowledge on the environmental issue, the value of care in their daily actions and the association with mother-Earth were identified. The results show that few students assume a systemic position of the environment and, likewise, that in their daily practices they do not relate maternal care as a potential to care for the environment; however by subjecting them to problematic situations, they were able to relate it. It is concluded that the analysis of the realities of the context from a critical reflection allows harmonizing the relationship between humanity and nature towards new ways of inhabiting to sustain life on and of the planet.

Keywords : Environmental education; mother-Earth symbolic; caring value; daily practices; assimilation; accommodation.

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