A Methodological Proposal for Environmental Education

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  • Guillermo Foladori Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Abstract

This paper discusses methodological criteria for environmental education. The place of environmental education in the curriculum has led to its being considered as a dimension that should cut across different disciplines, instead of offering a corpus of contents by itself. Nevertheless, experience has shown that ecology has systematically filled up the contents of environmental education. In the following pages I try to explain: (a) the reasons why ecology has gained hegemony, as well as the limitations that this approach represents; (b) the place and evolution of the concept of Sustainable Development in relation to the ecological approach; and (c) the methodological importance of the distinction between technical and social relations as a way to improve on the ecological approach.

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2005-01-01

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