ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION STRATEGY FOR NATURAL SCIENCE CAREERS

Abstract

Environmental problems have been increasingly evident and irreversible, society demands the education of the new generations to preserve the environmental legacy and face present and future demands. In the Bachelor of Education careers in the specialties of Biology, Geography, and Chemistry, it is necessary to work coherently in order to develop Environmental Education in the students of said careers. The objective of this research was: to propose an Environmental Education Strategy (EEA) for Natural Sciences careers that contributed to first-year students of the Bachelor of Education careers. Biology, geography, and Chemistry, achieve greater environmental awareness. For the development of the research, information collection methods (participatory observation, document review, survey, interview, expert criteria) and collected information processing methods (analysis - synthesis, inductive-demonstrative, logical historical, modeling, and descriptive statistics). The methods made it possible to determine the needs of the students from the cognitive, affective, and procedural points of view, with respect to the environment. The strategy was submitted to the judgment of experts, who valued it as relevant, and was implemented from the 2016-2020 academic year with favorable results. The strategy makes it possible to contribute to the development of environmental awareness in the students of the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, Villa Clara, Cuba.

Keywords: education – environmental – environmental awareness – natural sciences – sustainable development – strategy