CONSTRUCTION OF AN ECOLOGICAL CULTURE, A SOCIAL CHALLENGE FROM THE CRITICAL ECOPEDAGOGY, YEAR 2022

Abstract

Critical ecopedagogy arises from the concern of confronting the global system that dominates us under the auspices of the existing means and/or production mechanisms, which follow the industrial logic of survival that is not focused on a model of sustainable human development. . This study consisted of showing the reader an educational novelty, which sustains its bases in the reflection of critical human thought and that through intellectual creative sources allow that depth to open the locks of unidirectional thinking and the academic alignment to which we are currently subjected to, it is then the search for the answers of the complex that turns out to be trapped in the condition imposed by force and not by reason. The general objective of this research is to deploy a type of pedagogy in the classroom in an experimental way with the intention of contributing to the training of a new type of professionals at the service of humanity. The research was framed in the socio-critical dialectical paradigm based on the use of focus groups as a tool whose main findings were to connect with the creative sources of each one of those involved in the teaching and learning process under a reasoning, interpretation and inference approach, which they are pillars in the human critical capacity. This educational novelty is a door to academic training from a holistic, emancipatory approach but above all that promotes professionals who promote sustainable human development as a strategy to preserve planetary life. This is a task that, although it is tyrannical due to the obstacles that must be faced, we know that education always manages to provide the answers to the great unknowns of humanity.

Keywords:  Critical thinking,  educational novelty, inclusive teacher. sustainability.