Abstract

MENDOZA-ALBA, Cesar Augusto; PEDRAZA-JIMENEZ, Yamile  and  HERNANDEZ-BARBOSA, Rubinsten. The school environmental projects (PRAE) in Community Building: An Experience of Environmental Education in a Rural Context. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2023, n.54, pp.47-64.  Epub Feb 08, 2024. ISSN 0121-3814.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ted.num54-18711.

Anthropic actions, resulting from the diverse biocultural ways of relating to nature, most of the time have been established from a hegemonic paradigm that has generated crisis and destruction. This situation requires urgent actions to rethink Environmental Education in order to rebuild, reestablish, reward, or create new forms of relevant relationships with the planet, where the school as a meeting place for cultures has a leading role. This article describes part of a research experience1 that aimed to redefine the role of the School Environmental Project at San Pedro Claver School, with the aim of promoting actions which are environmentally responsible with the territory. This study was approached from methodological foundations typical of qualitative research, with a hermeneutic perspective, which seeks to interpret and understand the multiple meanings of human actions. In this way, the participants were students in the last two years of school between the ages of 14 and 17 and parents recognized for being leaders in their communities and for taking actions to promote environmental practices. A proposal was suggested to strengthen the links between the community and the school through the creation of Rural Environmental Training Schools, with the aim of addressing environmental problems, which must form a structural part of the PRAE and from there, serve as an object of reflection, discussion and action.

Keywords : bioculture; community; Environmental Education; school; sustainability; traditional knowledge; territory.

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