Abstract

RAMIREZ BERMUDEZ, José Fernando  and  PEDRAZA-JIMENEZ, Yamile. Social representations on environmental education from a rural context. Prax. Saber [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.34, pp.72-91.  Epub Mar 10, 2023. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/22160159.v13.n34.2022.13936.

Social representations (SR) on environmental education (EE) reveal knowledge, imaginaries, cosmovisions and ways of seeing and facing educational processes in contexts characterized by natural, social, and cultural dynamics framed in a common time and space. Thus, this article analyzes the SR on EE of ten teachers from a rural educational institution. The methodology is framed within the interpretative paradigm and the qualitative approach. The results show that SR on EE are naturalistic, globalizing, anthropocentric, ethical-moral, and resolutive. A direct connection has also been observed between the area of training of the teacher and the time of interaction with the context. Likewise, since teachers only have experience in disciplinary areas, they do not mobilize interdisciplinary actions in favor of guiding a relevant EE, which makes it necessary to establish permanent training processes for teachers with a praxical, critical, and emancipatory vision on local environmental problems and the importance of EE in rural contexts.

Keywords : environmental education; rural context; environmental training; social representations.

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