Environmental Education: Challenges for the Construction of an Ecological Citizenship

Rutti-Marín J.M.; Yuli-Posadas R.A.; Cóndor-Salvatierra E.J. · Revista de Filosofia (Venezuela) (2022) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6003820

Resumen

This paper aims the viability of building an ecological citizenship, understood as a response to the environmental crisis, a product of the advance of symbols of the instrumental rationality of modernity. The confluence of diverse theoretical, cultural, educational, philosophical and social movements gave rise to the emergence of a political ecology, which was built on the utilitarian foundations established by Western logos, while allowing a holistic, complex and heterogeneous understanding of relationality man/naturalness. However, the environmental problem was not resolved with the political emergence of ecology; it required entering into sustainable development, with the presence of an ecological citizenry, whose fines are placed on the responsibility and active role of the citizen in favor of the environment, to the communities in the processes of transformation of society. However, to consolidate this proposal, it cannot be achieved without environmental education, thought, in the bureaucratic terms of the academy, as a life training, which must be carried out from birth to death, promoting axiological training and a culture sustained, fair and sustainable.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica; Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Selva Central Juan Santos Atahualpa