Método de proyectos para el desarrollo de competencias (disciplinares – humanas) aplicado a la educación ambiental

Abstract

In the training of integral professionals for the development of society in environmental aspects, they are required to apply competences in their training processes that allow them to face the needs and problems that currently arise. For this, methodologies that allow the application and execution of human and professional competencies must be implemented in academic spaces, one of these methodologies is the project method or PBL – PO (Problem Based Learning – Project Oriented). Therefore, this research establishes environmental education as a strategy to solve the problem of solid waste generation, this being the means to apply the ABP-OP and the development of human and professional skills. These projects were developed by the students of the first, sixth and seventh semesters of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Saint Thomas University - Tunja Section. The projects were applied by the students during the 2019-II semester and were guided by the teacher, with the main topic being environmental education in solid waste management in different academic and social spaces. The researcher, for his part, applied data collection instruments such as interview, survey and observation grids, to determine the state of the competences in the students and how these were strengthened during the application of the ABP-OP methodology. At the beginning of the research, the students were not clear about how these competencies were developed, therefore, they answered according to the expectation that they generated or applied them indirectly. By developing the projects and clarifications of these competencies by the teacher during the classes, field practices and development of the environmental education project, the students were able to relate them to their training process and be certain of how to work or implement them.