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The recent Spanish law on education (LOMLOE) gives great importance to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), following the model of the European curricula. Given this context, it is essential to assess pro-environmental attitudes among students. This paper offers a transverse quantitative study analysing the environmental attitudes of 1076 students from the Community of Valencia (Spain) at all levels of compulsory secondary education, using a ROSE (Relevance of Science Education) questionnaire. The results show a low-to-moderate pro-active attitude, in conjunction with a barely optimistic view of the future and limited confidence in science and technology to solve problems. Statistical differences were found between genders, with girls being more eco-minded, but there were no significant differences between age groups in compulsory secondary education. This fact highlights the static nature of ESD within secondary school. Therefore, a greater involvement of the educational community is needed for the development of real strategies aimed at promoting desirable environmental attitudes in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to transfer the pedagogy of environmental education, which reinforces pro-environmental behaviors, to everyday settings by adopting a conceptual and methodological approach. For this purpose, a training path was implemented with the educational community of the Colegio Jorge Gaitán Cortés in Bogotá, Colombia. Five groups of pedagogical interventions were performed there: (1) resignification of relationships with the environment through interpretive tours, (2) inter-institutional articulation for environmental education, (3) curricular focus on environmentally relevant behaviors, (4) implementation of environmental volunteering, and (5) institutional actions for environmental sustainability. This paper also reviews other studies in this field that revolve around three perspectives: environmental education to generate pro-environmental cultural behaviors and practices, the concept of educating city, and the interdisciplinary study of environmental aspects. The results indicate that pedagogic actions should be transferred to the immediate environment and the everyday lives of the educational community. In addition, experiential and cognitive approaches can be combined to encourage the socio-environmental acknowledgement of environmentally friendly spaces in the city, identity formation, and the establishment of bonds with the territory. The pedagogical emphasis on pro-environmental actions enabled students to come up with solutions to problems that are relevant to them. The path towards the construction of a culture of environmental sustainability and, particularly, the consolidation of the achievements of pedagogical interventions require medium and long-term processes that influence the habits and lifestyle of the members of the educational community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a board game type educational resource, entitled 'S.O.S. Civilizations'. The design of this resource is based on the commercial game "The Forbidden Island". Based on game-based learning, its objective is to contribute to the training and knowledge of High School students in environmental and social issues of the 21st century, through the Sustainable Development Goals (UN). The ability of the designed game to foster motivation and pro-environmental commitment has been evaluated through a qualitative analysis using two theoretical frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims the viability of building an ecological citizenship, understood as a response to the environmental crisis, a product of the advance of symbols of the instrumental rationality of modernity. The confluence of diverse theoretical, cultural, educational, philosophical and social movements gave rise to the emergence of a political ecology, which was built on the utilitarian foundations established by Western logos, while allowing a holistic, complex and heterogeneous understanding of relationality man/naturalness. However, the environmental problem was not resolved with the political emergence of ecology; it required entering into sustainable development, with the presence of an ecological citizenry, whose fines are placed on the responsibility and active role of the citizen in favor of the environment, to the communities in the processes of transformation of society. However, to consolidate this proposal, it cannot be achieved without environmental education, thought, in the bureaucratic terms of the academy, as a life training, which must be carried out from birth to death, promoting axiological training and a culture sustained, fair and sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, lots of organizations and important figures from all over the world are joining forces in order to solve environmental problems affecting the planet. Education must also get involved in this. However, solutions need to be clearly defined and conceptualized. This paper discusses the concepts of environmental education (EE), sustainable development (SD) and the so-called environmental education for sustainable development (EEFSD) at educational institutions, particularly universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the objectives of sustainable development (OSD) established in September 2015, in an agreement signed by 193 countries at the United Nations General Assembly, from the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The specific objectives were: to present the concept of Environmental Education in the critical perspective; to know the objectives of sustainable development; to analyze the OSD in the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The research question listed was: are there possible approaches to think of the achievement of OSD, through an Environmental Education in its critical aspect? In the present work we start from the assumption that Environmental Education in its critical aspect is defined in Brazil from a matrix that sees education as an element of social transformation, inspired by dialogue, in the exercise of citizenship, in the strengthening of subjects, in the overcoming capitalist forms of domination and understanding the world in its complexity. At the end, it is evident that Environmental Education, in its critical, emancipating and transforming aspect of reality, shows itself as a viable path for the pursuit of the sustainable development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper emphasizes the importance of presenting environmental education plans and programs with special emphasis on the component of sustainable development. It is based on an analysis of international and national perspectives that have favored the enactment of useful legislative frameworks for the design of educational programs. The second part of the work presents an advance of the conclusions of an education project for environmental sustainability referred to the creation of habits of selective collection of plastic containers, designed by a higher education institution and a company in the recycling sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development, as well as other narratives within the framework of environmental conservation, is often used as an advertising resource to improve a brand image. In this paper, a teaching proposal based on a critical analysis of the discourse of a set of television commercials is presented. Specific attention is given to the car industry, due to its huge environmental implications and its impact in mass media and popular culture. This study highlights that persuasive discourses around automobile still persist, which are more emotional than rational, as a way to elude the true debates about today's social and environmental challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental education (EE) seeks to cultivate a sustainable mindset in citizens in the hope that this will result in better environmental care in their surroundings. This paper identifies municipalities with the greatest and poorest academic results in EE-related subjects in the National Assessment of Academic Achievement in Schools (ENLACE), and a system of indicators of urban environmental sustainability was used to assess environmental conditions. By using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, a significant link was found between the two variables, as it was found that Delegación Cuauhtémoc, the Federal District, the municipalities of Toluca (State of Mexico) and Cajeme (Sonora) achieved the highest scores both in EE-related subjects and in the environmental indicators, whereas the municipalities of Lázaro Cárdenas (Michoacán), Asunción Nochixtlán (Oaxaca) and Ometepec (Guerrero) scored lowest, both in related subjects and in the sustainability indicator results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of classical doctrines with regards to development and economic growth in the field of production, consumption and social life has engendered inconformity in almost every aspect of life. Among them, ethics, human and environmental aspects have emerged in the mid-twentieth century as news ways of thinking morals, education and development. Therefore, this paper aims at addressing succinctly the most relevant elements on environmental ethics, education in environmental values and the sustainable development paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The university, space of analysis, critical reflection, educational and technological innovation, and center of cultural development, acts in both the environmental problem research and the looking for a model according to the sustainable development. It is needed to create an adequate perception of the environmental problems, and also to work out in political, technological, educative and administrative procedures with participation of the university community and citizenship. This is most important if the activities concerning to engineering of the geology, mining and metallurgic profiles is referred. This paper presents an interdisciplinary strategy of environmental formation that permit to design and environmental formation model by skills conceived for any career. So, its application become specific in agreement with the procedures and skills defined in career's curriculum. For a better comprehension the strategy is exemplified for Metallurgic Engineering career of the High Mining-Metallurgic Institute of Moa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an analysis of the situation presented by environmental education at the high-school level, by means of a case study done in the municipality of Campeche. There was performed exploratory research which combined quantitative and qualitative methods to diagnose high-school students' level of environmental culture, as well as the type of environmental education they receive. The results indicate that students have a low level of environmental awareness, and lack the necessary knowledge and skills with which to make environmentally-friendly changes in their lifestyles. Although they show an interest in environmental issues, both their institutional context and their teachers' low level of qualification operate as factors that discourage the students. The results allowed us to identify windows of opportunity for environmental education in the light of the students' positive attitudes, their interest in learning sustainable practices, and the importance of the school as a source of information on the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a reference about the importance of the public transportation systems development in Mexico City through a perspective of service quality and its relation with the sustainable development, related to the environmental pollution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current article is one of the results of the research paper entitled "Public Policies for the Management of the Solid Wastes in the Aburra Valley," carried out by the Right, Culture and City Research Group at Faculty of Law at Saint Bonaventure University, Medellin branch. Its purpose is to explain that the materialization of the right to a safe environment can only be feasible if the environmental issue is understood from a systemic approach and the environmental pedagogy is much more used than its regulations, since with it, it will be feasible the consolidation of new values and the transformation of realities about the protection of the environment. Owing to the fact that the apparition of environmental issues is linked to the complex interaction between man, society and nature and the study of this complexity can serve as the starting point toward the search of adequate strategies to reach a sustainable relationship between the natural systems and the social systems. For this, education becomes an essential tool in the process of making of attitudes and behaviors, through which individuals and community become aware of their environment and make up knowledge, values and the competencies necessary to act, articulated to the natural system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]