Resumo

ALVAREZ SUAREZ, Pedro; VEGA MARCOTE, Pedro  e  DE LA FUENTE SOLANA, Emilia I. Hacia el desarrollo sostenible en el tercer milenio: Análisis de una estrategia educativa para la concienciación y la estimulación de conductas sostenibles. Paradìgma [online]. 2006, vol.27, n.2, pp.55-72. ISSN 1011-2251.

The attention to the sustainable future can not be away from education. UNO has understood it and declared that 2005-2014 was the Decade for the Education for a Sustainable Development. This is a challenge and Environmental Education (EE) presents itself as a useful instrument to prepare citizens so that they apply the criteria of sustainability to their behaviours. This implies the design of teaching strategies that go over the gap between the theoretical discourse in EE and the daily practice. So, we developed a “investigative” didactic strategy, with a constructive character, based on researching on the environmental impact that the consumption habits of our society produce. We present the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate its efficacy. In the study, 137 future teachers participated. They were divided in two groups, “experimental” and “control “, and they were taught using the new didactic methodology or a more traditional one, respectively. The results in the pre-test show that there are not statistical differences between the groups. From the post-test it can be concluded that the experimental group change significantly their knowledge, improve their attitudes and, above all, they show a disposition to undertake actions, as individuals and groups, with sustainability criteria and a special emphasis in solidarity and equity intra and intergenerational.

Palavras-chave : Sustainable development; environmental education; educational strategy.