Didactic proposal of environmental spaces in pre-school education classrooms

Authors

  • Santiago Rojano Ramos Universidad de Málaga. Área de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación Spain
  • Mª Ángeles Jiménez López Universidad de Málaga.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/innoeduca.2017.v3i1.2039

Keywords:

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL SPACES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

The objective of this article is the design of an action program for environmental education in the early childhood education, specifically for students of 5-6 years aged. So, it’s developed a qualitative study on the perception that future teachers of pre-school education have about environmental education in early age and the convenience to create environmental education programs with children just at the moment when they have incorporated into their schools. Based on the ideas given by the professional futures of the teaching of the first school stage, it has been proposed and designed an active program of environmental education, whose main idea was the use of a methodology based on the environmental spaces. The program has been developed so that classrooms could be transformed as spaces of environmental education, in which has worked a topic related to environmental education (recycling, water, biodiversity, pollution, etc.) in each one, determined in each case whether the activity in every space could affect to the planet and measure the intensity degree. Graphically, every space is represented by a circle above the Earth figure and students evaluated if the activity impacts over the characteristics of the planet and sustainable development. The interaction of each environmental space with the planet is represented by a colour concentric circle that surrounds our planet. The impact level is pointed by circles with different colours (green, yellow and red) in order to explain the level of the interaction between the environmental space activity and our planet.

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Author Biographies

Santiago Rojano Ramos, Universidad de Málaga. Área de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación

Profesor Sustituto Interino. Departamento de Didáctica de la Matermática, de las Ciencias Sociales y de las Ciencias Experimentales.

Doctor en Ciencias Químicas y Máster en Educador/a Ambiental por la Universidad de Málaga.

Mª Ángeles Jiménez López, Universidad de Málaga.

Profesora Titular del Área de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.

Doctora en Ciencias Químicas

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Published

2017-05-31

How to Cite

Rojano Ramos, S., & Jiménez López, M. Ángeles. (2017). Didactic proposal of environmental spaces in pre-school education classrooms. Innoeduca. International Journal of Technology and Educational Innovation, 3(1), 66–74. https://doi.org/10.24310/innoeduca.2017.v3i1.2039

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