Promoción de la cultura ambiental en los habitantes del barrio el centro del municipio del Playón para la protección del río el Playón

Abstract

One of the advantages of the action research is that it allows the approach to the reality of the context to be investigated. This study did formulate as an objective, to promote the environmental culture among the inhabitants of the neighborhood called “the Center” of the Municipality of Playón, in favor of the protection of the river El Playón; before the environmental practices of destruction, already characterized among the population under study. To recognize the environmental problems of the riverside and the evidence of the risk factors, made that situations already lived by the greater population of the community, will be taken as an alert and they will be interested in participating in the educational actions proposed to reduce the existing problem. The methodological process was developed in a cyclical way. The diagnosis was the epicenter of the formulation of six educational interventions, which were worked in a sequential manner, being evaluated in an exercise of constructive and reconstructive self-reflection. The conceptual foundation of the project focused on the recognition of values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, which allowed us to characterize the environmental culture as a need for training among the population in order to improve as the relationship that as human beings corresponds to us with the common home.