Abstract

MENDIETA HERNANDEZ, Milena Paola  and  GUTIERREZ GOMEZ, Gloria Leonor. ACTITUDES AMBIENTALES HACIA EL AGUA, UNA EXPLORACIÓN EN ESTUDIANTES DEL MUNICIPIO DE VENTAQUEMADA (BOYACÁ): ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES TOWARD WATER, AN EXPLORATION IN STUDENTS FROM THE VENTAQUEMADA MUNICIPALITY (BOYACÁ). Luna Azul [online]. 2014, n.39, pp.40-62. ISSN 1909-2474.

This article presents the results of the first phase of an investigation completed and oriented to design, implement and evaluate a teaching strategy that promotes knowledge and conservation attitudes toward water in students from a rural school in the department of Boyacá (Colombia) using as media hub the Muisca People's world view around water. To achieve this purpose, following the criteria of action research, a code book that compiled categories, issues, items and intentionality of a series of questions was designed. Based on this, an attitude questionnaire with multiple choice questions with only one possible answer and semi-open questions which allowed assessing the conceptual, procedural and axiological dimensions of the attitude towards water understood from the complex vision of environment was designed and submitted to validity process. Subsequently, an analysis of the diagnostic instrument was performed with SPSS Statistical Software version 17 for multiple choice questions and Atlas.ti Software, for semi-open questions. After analyzing the results, it was found that there is little correlation between what is written, what is felt and what is done on water. Among the conclusions, it is urged that the diagnosis of attitudes is precedent factor of teaching strategies that support the development of environmentally sustainable attitudes toward water.

Keywords : Attitude; water; environmental education; assessment; Muiscas.

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