Estrategias de educación ambiental participativa promotoras de conservación y apropiación de recursos naturales en la Institución Educativa Agrícola Guacavia, Cumaral - Meta

Abstract

Within the framework of the project endorsed in the VII internal call for research of the Santo Tomás University, called "Comprehensive plan for environmental education and community participation for the Agricultural Educational Institution of Guacavía (IEAG)"; three phases are proposed that make up its specific objectives. Initially, the evaluation of the environmental processes regarding solid waste developed by the IEAG was carried out; subsequently, participatory environmental education strategies were designed to promote the conservation and appropriation of natural resources by the educational community, concluding with the implementation of the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (Medina & Pardo, 2019). This degree work emerges as support to consolidate the second specific objective set by the main research, “Design participatory environmental education strategies that promote the conservation and appropriation of natural resources by the educational community”, thus, starting from of the environmental diagnosis resulting from the first specific objective, an evaluation was carried out prior to the implementation of this proposal in order to establish the state of knowledge in environmental matters of the educational community, thus allowing the present study to adjust the workshops corresponding to the needs denoted. Following, environmental education programs were designed, according to the performance of the workshops carried out. Finally, the evaluation of the project implementation was carried out, allowing the results to be socialized and generating the pertinent recommendations, thus responding to the requirements of the School Environmental Projects (PRAE), the General Education Law and the Institutional Educational Project (PEI). The purpose of implementing this study, was to make known and suggest to the institution the integration of this model of environmental education in the curriculum, as a complementary activity, stating that the interaction, participation and appropriation of the problems, are strategies that increase interest and environmental awareness on the part of the educational community.