Social Representations of Environmental Management for Sustainability in a Private School Community
Abstract
The objective of this research was to identify the social representations about environmental management for sustainability shared by the school community of Universidad Español Diamante campus in Acapulco, Guerrero. The methodological scope was descriptive, and the design was mixed; 276 questionnaires and 11 interviews were applied to directive, teaching and non-academic staff and students. Qualitative data were processed through content analysis and quantitative data through natural semantic networks and descriptive statistics. Regarding the questionnaire, predominant responses indicated that the information acquired by the school community comes mainly from subjects taken in their academic training (biology, 26.7 %); In relation to social representations, 41 % of those interviewed think that the concept environmental management focuses on care, 31 % are unaware of sustainability and 30 % relate sustainability to the conservation of natural resources. Likewise, for 47% of those surveyed, the purpose of environmental management is basically to save and manage resources. The need to develop training processes with the entire school community is concluded, to move from a conservationist and utilitarian conceptualization to the construction of more solid, complex, and dynamic social representations, oriented towards sustainability.
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