Planning of Environmental Education in the University Field: A Transdisciplinary Look

Abstract

The research is directed to produce an ontoepistemic reflection about Environmental Education planning at the university field with a transdisciplinary approach. It was focused with the interpretative paradigm, hermeneutic and dialectical methods and documentary research. The information collected gives a hermeneutical reliability, categorization, structuring, contrasting and theorizing. The results reflect that university education have predominated postulates centered on unidirectional, fragmented, disciplinary teaching, with sort of the knowledge. From programs design to academic praxis, the construction of knowledge is done in an isolated way with tendency to prepare students lack motivated to interact in the stage where they develop and indifferent to socio-environmental problems. Planning of Environmental Education is not assumed as an active way to linking educational praxis with the problematic environment situation that humanity faces today. The results indicated that the Environmental Education planning at the university field should revolve around complementarity with different areas of knowledge, a reflexive and transcendent attitude for higher education, in which environmental and social reality is conceived as changing and complexes phenomena.