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MONCADA, José Alí. Los proyectos en Parques Nacionales como estrategia para la enseñanza de la Educación Ambiental en la UPEL-IPC. SAPIENS [online]. 2005, vol.6, n.1, pp.25-46. ISSN 1317-5815.

The National Parks projects as strategy for environment education in the Pedagogic UPEL - IPC. The purpose of this paper is describe the educative experience called University and Park, this is an strategy of environment education that allows the integration of teaching, research, and extension activities with the national parks educative process. During two semesters, the students of environment education courses executed 26 projects; in those, they made the diagnosis of resources and educational needs of The Avila national park. Then they designs materials and activities that were applied in a specific audience. For evaluate the effectives strategy,after six months they did interviews to eight students, show changes in the behavior and appraise dimensions. However, they show a poor domain of content worked in this subject. Likewise, they said that the direct contact with the park was the element that the like most. The subject about the national parks seems to them very relevant for their teacher’s formation.

Palabras clave : projects; national parks; environment education.