Abstract

PORRAS CONTRERAS, Yair Alexánder. Social Representations About the Environmental Crisis in Preservice Chemistry Teachers of Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2015, n.38, pp.37-55. ISSN 0121-3814.

This article is aimed at recognizing the social representations of the environmental crisis, in a group of pre-service chemistry teachers at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN), taking as reference the structural approach of social representation. For most pre-service teachers, the environmental crisis is linked to the imaginary, the shared cultural values, learning and social practices that define the behavior, understanding and relationships between humans and the environment. In this research five domains on the environmental crisis are recognized: materialistic , ethical-moral , cultural , educational, scientific and technological , which reaffirm the polysemic, multicultural and pluriparadigmatic character in which perceptions, ideas, beliefs, conceptions and representations of the environmental are considered to start a discussion about environmental knowledge, developed in college and pedagogical practicum to guide the teacher proposals aimed at developing an environmental citizenship. The environmental crisis is directly related to the crisis of identity and with the increasing problems associated with deterioration in self-image, self-care, self-esteem and lack of environmental values. It is also a crisis of otherness, reflected in oppression, lack of freedom, lack of solidarity, social vulnerability, environmental racism, corruption and threats to health. It is a crisis of the territory, which is evidenced by the loss of space where the social relationship is established, a situation that promotes environmental injustice, migration and poverty. The sum of these imbalances affects the environment, our oikos, and a dynamic and complex system, which establishes rhizomatic relationships between its components (biophysical, social and cultural). Thus, it is concluded that the environmental crisis is a social construction that involves the identity, otherness, territoriality and particularly the formation of the eco-social person, which represents one of the most relevant risks for the humanity, becoming a crisis of civilization.

Keywords : Social representation; environmental crisis; social construction; environment.

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