The treatment of environment education at the primary school / El tratamiento de la educación ambiental en la educación primaria

Abstract

Environmental preservation has become a major issue on national and international stages. In Cuba, environmental education constitutes a transversal axis that passes through all the subjects of the school curriculum; however, there are difficulties in preparing teachers to take on the challenge that corresponds to them in their teaching. Hence, the objective of this article is to propose a system of workshops for the treatment of environmental education aimed at the preparation of the teacher who graduated from the Bachelor of Primary Education career from the schools "Francisco Gómez Toro" and "José de la Luz y Caballero "from the Mantua municipality. To meet this objective, the historical-logical method, the system approach, analysis and synthesis and modeling were used from the theoretical point of view, while from the empirical point of view the survey, the interview, the documentary analysis were used, scientific observation and descriptive statistics. As a result, it is determined that in the context of professional performance of recently graduated primary teachers, there is a contradiction between the need for an adequate treatment of the basic environmental content in the education of schoolchildren and the insufficient preparation they possess. Therefore, it concludes with a proposal for a system of workshops, characterized by exchange, reflection, the exposition of experiences and experiences that are relevant and generalizable to other careers of the Municipal University Center of Mantua.