Un constructo para la enseñanza de la educación ambiental desde la perspectiva de los docentes de una escuela Venezolana

Abstract

Globally, different organisms (United Nations Organization for the Education, the Science and the Culture, the Program of the United Nations for the Development and the Program of the United Nations for the Environment), have into their policies the insertion of the environment in the educational systems as a transverse axis. In Venezuela this offer was assumed initially in the curriculum development of the second stage of basic education (transverse axis) and later in the curriculum of Bolivarian elementary education (integration axis), but there exist few studies that explain what assumptions the teacher teaches the environmental education, reason by which this study was undertaken. The same had as goal generate a construct for the teaching of the environmental education from the perspective of the teachers of a Venezuelan school. The methodology of the investigation was qualitative, about the modality of the grounded theory. For it there were applied the phases of opened, axial and selective codification in interviews and observations obtained in the Bolivarian Elementary School “Manuel Méndez” of the municipality Cabimas. The findings allowed to establish the following categories: apprehension of the transversality, update of the teacher, process of teaching and learning, conception of environment in the teacher, school-community relation, selfesteem of the teacher and dynamic organizational. In conclusion, the substantive underlying category in the teachers of the studied school involves that the teaching of the environmental education is an expression of the rationality of the teacher.