Environmental education, a pedagogical mechanism for technical courses on civil works

Educación ambiental, un mecanismo pedagógico para las asignaturas técnicas sobre obras civiles

Abstract

This article refers to the need to base environmental education as a pedagogical mechanism for sustainability, due to the limited knowledge and updating of environmental education in students of the Bachelor's Degree in Construction Education from the professional pedagogical process of the discipline Project, Construction and Conservation of Civil Works, specifically the subjects. As a solution to this problem, the insertion of the environmental content is proposed from the pedagogical assumptions as a response to a social demand. An analysis of definitions and considerations of pedagogues and authors, environmental and sustainability concepts associated to contents of the discipline Project, Construction and Conservation of Civil Works for the development of environmental education in students and teachers is carried out. The philosophical, sociological, psychological, pedagogical and technological foundations that contribute to the determination of methods, conceptions and results from the theoretical and methodological point of view are results, meaning new ways to work on environmental education.