Environmental Strategies in the Ecotourism Training of Primary Education Students

Abstract

The present investigation presented as a general objective to propose environmental strategies in the ecotourism formation of the students of Primary Education, directed to the teachers of the Basic School Sebastián Araujo, municipality Pedraza, state Barinas. The study focused on the quantitative nature, using the feasible project supported by a field design. Twenty-one (21) teachers from the aforementioned institution were taken as a population. Likewise, the survey technique was handled and as a tool a questionnaire consisting of sixteen (16) items with Likert-type scaling. For the validity, expert judgment was used, using the reliability of Coefficient (α) Alpha of Cronbach, the calculations gave as value 0.86 considered reliability very high. According to the conclusions, the environmental strategies were designed according to the dimensions: (a) Environmental Knowledge, allows to know the importance of the environment in its natural component linked to the environment; (b) Socio-Environmental Tourism Linking, allows serving the geographic space and significant historical time, interacting with the family, school and community in the scenarios of coexistence; (c) Environmental Tourism Training, Training of Environmental Tourist Guides, acceding to develop the generation of attitudes from spaces that grant thoughts and reflection according to environmental, social, economic, political and educational processes and; (d) Affiliation of the Cultural Heritage in the axiom of skills and plans of reference to the local culture.