A proposal for the teaching of environmental education in public universities

Abstract

The uncontrolled use of science and technology has negatively impacted the environment; it has generated imbalances in the environment related to the interaction between man and nature. The present article is an educational proposal, which has the purpose of offering strategic and pedagogical actions to professors at the university levels for the  Environmental Education course. It also aims to develop students’ fundamental values in order to increase the interaction of the man with the environment. This paper is a critical-reflexive analysis to a previous qualitative-quantitative research (Bermúdez, Escalante y Figueira, 2016), whose results showed the necessity of reorienting the Environmental Education praxis and also allowed to design an action plan to the corse mentioned above in a transforming way. This proposal is based on the social responsibility that Venezuelan Public University should take, specifically at Nueva Esparta State, in the promotion of an active participation of the students to solve their community environmental problems.