Promoción de hábitos ecológicos mediante la reducción de residuos sólidos en la Institución Educativa Ciudad de Cartago

Abstract

There is an excessive pressure on natural resources, the management of solid waste has become in a global challenge, Colombia could avoid an environmental emergency if it begins to reduce the amount of solid waste disposed in landfills and there is a way, environmental education. The objective of this research was to develop an environmental education proposal focused on the reduction of solid waste to improve the environmental habits of seventh grade students of the Ciudad de Cartago School, under the qualitative methodological approach, with a constructivist pedagogical approach in a social critical environmental education stream, framed in the research-action, design that consists of three phases, diagnosis, preparation of the environmental education program in form of a didactic sequence and the determination of the criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of this application.