Environmental Education Program to Counteract the Factors of Deforestation

Abstract

The study was focused with the objective of proposing an environmental education program to counteract the factors of deforestation in the vulnerable areas of the La Vega de los Indios community, San Rafael de Canagua, Pedraza municipality, Barinas state. The research framed in the quantitative approach under the feasible project modality and in a field design. The population constituted by one hundred fifty (150) inhabitants and the one to make the calculations of the sample was used the formula proposed by Palella and Martins (2012), obtaining a value of sixty (60) subjects. For the collection of the information, a survey questionnaire with Likert scaling was designed with five (05) alternative answers: Always, Almost Always, Sometimes, Almost Never and Never. Therefore, the instrument was validated by three (03) experts in: methodology and environmental education. Likewise, the internal consistency coefficient of Cronbach (alpha) was used. The analysis of the data was carried out by means of descriptive statistics; using the frequency distribution the graphical representation was used the bar chart. The study concludes: ignorance of the inhabitants according to the environmental education program and the factors of deforestation. Likewise, the members of the community have the need to apply environmental education programs. An environmental education program was formulated, which reflects the specific objective, content, strategies, activities, time, resources, responsible and evaluation.