Abstract

NINO-BARAJAS, Leomary  and  PEDRAZA-JIMENEZ, Yamile. Enhance Environmental Education through Case Studies. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2019, n.45, pp.143-158. ISSN 0121-3814.

This research paper describes how, through the didactic construction of the case study, middle-school students from the Mirabuenos campus of Institución Educativa Tierra Negra, (IETN) in Chipatá, Department of Santander (Colombia), understand the relationships between people from the municipality and their natural context. One of the main problems in this region is the agricultural and economic activity of panela production from sugarcane, under the ideal of economic development, while disregarding the fact that this activity causes imbalance and wear to natural ecosystems. As such, the purpose of the study that resulted in this article was to enhance citizen action and sensitivity of the students about the deterioration of their territory. Based on the conceptual, procedural and attitudinal foundations of Environmental Education (EA) and on the didactic strategy of building the case study with the students, we analyze environmental scenarios from the interpretative or hermeneutical paradigm, including: the conceptualization of EA, the theoretical-practical contextualization of the EA, and the recognition of the environmental problem. It was found that, as a didactic practice, the study case contributes to redefining the EA, by critically reflecting on land rights and recognizing that environmental issues are not isolated units, but that they are associated with the history of a community.

Keywords : didactics; territory; case study; environmental education; applied research.

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