Environmental Education: From Historical Considerations to the Ethics of Responsibility

Marín J.M.R.; Juanito Y.A.C.; Llallico M.B.S. · Revista de Filosofia (Venezuela) (2022) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6464211

Resumen

Educating for a sustainable world is a challenge that is faced equally at the academic, citizen, governmental, local, regional and international levels. It implies a series of limitations, but, at the same time, a framework of actions, whose direction is equitable social progress. In response to this, the article points out the historical trajectory of environmental education that, following Zabala and García (2008), has eight decisive moments for its consolidation. However, given the advance of Western hegemony, environmental education has had to reconfigure itself, joining an applied ethic, specifically an ecological ethic, which understands the holistic dimension of environmental problems, seeking to set axiological patterns and interaction with communities. It is recognized that, more than a curricular or academic approach, environmental education must permeate all scenarios, reinterpreting the world and creating the conditions for dialogue, moving towards environmental rationality, supported by an ethic of responsibility.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Chota; Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú; Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Selva Central Juan Santos Atahualpa