Educación ambiental y desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en educación general básica

Abstract

This ethnographic research is structured around the following questions: What is environmental education? What is critical thinking? and What are the best practices to promote environmental education to develop critical thinking? the same who helped set the overall objective in order to facilitate students in reflection and responsibility for environmental issues facing the planet today. The process used to answer each of the questions was based on the investigation, collection and analysis of bibliographic information. In developing the monographic research emphasizes the need for future teachers are prepared to form not only students, but human beings with critical attitude and shareholder to defend and support nature, and thus to diminish in any way the problems environmental afflicting the planet. The investigation culminated in the compilation of best practices for addressing the subject Environmental Education to develop critical thinking, which are proposed to be applied in real life of children.