The curricular strategy of environmental education in the discipline of Economic and Social Geography

Abstract

The work has as objective to propose activities in the Economic and Social Geography to contribute to the implementation of the curricular strategy of Environmental Education in the Career Biology - Geography. The population is composed by fifteen second students and third year; the quantitative focus of the investigation is assumed, using methods of the theoretical and empiric level; as a result of the process they intend activities to implement this curricular strategy. The professional's formation is a multilateral process where general aspects of the profession are approached, which cannot be achieved in its entirety from a discipline or in an academic year; therefore, in Cuba they are projected in the careers a group of curricular strategies. With this end, in the Career Biology - Geography these strategies are conceived, which have their implementation in each one of the processes nouns, especially that of formation. One of the disciplines that conform the curriculum of the Career is the Economic and Social Geography, which possesses potentialities in their contents to implement this strategy, especially the related with the Environmental Education. It is concluded that there is potential to work with the curricular strategy of environmental education and discipline programs, contribute to the environmental training of the future professional by showing greater strength and interrelationship between knowledge of the discipline and the environmental education, the development of your solution and planning skills in the school in the town where he made his teaching practice and the development of qualities of the personality.