La protección de la microcuenca del Río Dulce, un compromiso con la educación ambiental

Abstract

A important sector of the municipality Sasaima is the San Bernardo and Santa Inés towns, like are part of the micro watershed´s Dulce River territory. The Dulce River has a pollution environmental issue the students of RDEI (Rural Departmental Educational Institution) San Bernardo and the community generally have identified that the pollution issue is the negative anthropogenic effect of the improper waste disposal by residents inside the houses around the Dulce River and the tourist people and community people who visit the river for recreation activities. In the same way the domestic wastewater are contributing to increase the contamination level of the river because of the lack sanitation system to collect these. Therefore, the educative community of RDEI cannot keep away of this environmental problem but design a pedagogic intervention strategy that contribute to generate a culture of care and protection of the river. The strategy for the pedagogic intervention proposed like result of the process, includes pedagogic actions about environmental education that can be develop like resources into the process teaching- learning with the students of secondary school of RDEI San Bernardo. The approach of these pedagogic actions are base in the construction of agreements, among into the main social characters inside the territory of the micro watershed of the Dulce River in Santa Inés - San Bernardo sector.