Potentialities to promote environmental awareness in economics student’s education

Abstract

Universities are responsible for developing the educational work of committed-to-their-social-mission professionals. The need to improve the teaching and learning process to favor students´ integral formation constitutes the basis of the problem investigated. Since it requires making use of all the educational potentialities, taking advantage of the curriculum, the university environment and the extracurricular sphere to favor the insertion of the environmental dimension in such task is the essence of this work. As a result of this research, a methodological strategy for Environmental Education is presented as a contribution to the B.A. in Economics-to-be teaching-learning process. It regards the relationship between environmental knowledge, values, and attitudes as an environmental content repository, which articulates the environmental dimension in the comprehensive education process.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/ptoketheeducati-024