The transversality of environmental education in two educational institutions of the department of Nariño, Colombia

Abstract

Transversality is the route that we have traveled to advance towards the construction of a complex reality where the disciplinary of the environmental issue is integrated with the academic constructions that unite experience and reality to the curriculum. The work was developed in two public educational institutions in the department of Nariño, Colombia, one located in the rural sector and the other in an urban sector. The two Institutions have participated in the project of transversality of environmental education supported by the Office of the Vice Rectory for Research and Social Interaction of the University of Nariño. The objective of the research was to determine and analyze the way in which the environmental dimension is being mainstreamed in the school curriculum through the PRAE school environmental projects, to know the perceptions of teachers regarding relevant concepts in the process and how that vision it affects the operationalization and execution of the transversality project. A methodology was used within the qualitative paradigm framed in Participatory Action Research, using conversations and surveys with open questions that were processed with the help of the Atlas ti software. Some categories were elaborated that allowed to determine the conceptual constructions of the teachers and the institutional abilities to mainstream the environmental dimension in their school curricula.