La ecopedagogía en la construcción de la ciudadanía: una revisión

Man’s relationship with his environment has not always been entirely harmonious. The increase in population, the development of industries, the increasing need for energy and the development of technology, has generated an over-exploitation of natural resources, tending to damage, which in many cases are irreversible, on the environment. Environmental education is presented as the spearhead in the formation of a citizen with environmental awareness, to minimize and some cases mitigate the negative impacts to the environment, hence ecopedagogy as an emerging paradigm, is outlined as of fundamental importance. The present review study was carried out with a documentary research scheme, where 65 documents were reviewed, including scientific articles published in indexed journals, book chapters, conference papers, academic documents and electronic books. It is imperative that the new planetary environmental citizen be formed under the fundamental precepts of sustainable development, with social, environmental and cultural awareness, towards a true sense of belonging to mother earth, of which the human being is a part. It is there where ecopedagogy is presented as the real alternative for the creation of the new planetary environmental citizen, replacing traditional environmental education