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BRICENO SOTO, José Manuel. Education and natural sciences in the planetary context: A challenge for the teaching training institutions. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2009, vol.24, n.2, pp.146-180. ISSN 1316-0087.

This work constitutes a theoretical refl ection around the planetary character that the modern world acquires. It focuses on two particular aspects: the global interdependence of all that exists and the growing concern of human beings towards preservation of the earth as a life-keeping habitat. In this way, the research develops a establishment towards the way human constituent can contribute to support or destroy the intersolidarities that are part of the earth dynamic, with the purpose of putting into evidence the need to adequate traditional education and the classical conception of natural sciences to this new context. It states a series of challenges that must be assumed by the teaching training educational institutions.

Palavras-chave : globalization; environmental crisis; scientific rationality; planetary education.