Percepciones docentes sobre educación ambiental en la primera infancia

Abstract

The present research entitled: Teachers' perceptions on environmental education in early childhood, is constituted as an approach and a survey on the perception that teachers of early childhood and first basic education of the city of Cuenca have regarding Environmental Education. This research has been approached with a descriptive and exploratory scope on the two main categories: Environmental Education and Perceptions. The study, therefore, presents a qualitative approach, which collected information from 12 semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers from public and private institutions, belonging to sublevel two of Initial Education and first grade of elementary school. The general objective of this work is to understand teachers' perceptions about environmental education in early childhood. The results show that the teachers know what environmental education is; however, their knowledge should be deepened through training on this subject. Another result is that teachers have positive attitudes towards this topic, since they recognize the importance of the environment and promote care, respect and love for it in their classrooms. The conclusions we have reached in the first place is that: approaching Environmental Education from an early age helps to form human beings who are more aware and respectful of nature. Secondly, it is important to emphasize that it is everyone's responsibility to promote habits of preservation and care for the environment in infants.