A methodology to strengthen the environmental education/Una metodología para fortalecer la educación ambiental

Abstract

The environmental education is a topic very important in this moment, its development constitutes a necessity in the professors in initial formation, given in the fundamental thing by the contribution that it has in the protection of the environment. The present work has as objective to propose a methodology for the environmental education, from the discipline General Zoology so it contributes to their best preparation. Starting from this problem and the potentialities that offers the discipline General Zoology, different theoretical methods are applied as the analysis and synthesis, historical logical and the system focus and empiric methods like the study of documents: programs, methodological orientations and books of texts, observation to classes and pedagogic test; those that allowed to verify the initial state of this process. The search of information on the topic threw that this thematic has been little tried from the theoretical and the methodological point of view, besides the professors' insufficient preparation in the direction of the process that are reflected in the learning of the professors in initial formation, for that reason was elaborated a methodology to develop the environmental education. The reached results evidence transformation levels that demonstrate that the proposal contributes to the completed preparation in the professors in initial formation.