Education as a Guiding Foundation Towards an Environmental Culture
Abstract
The present investigation arises from the premise that the woman as mother is considerably more sensitive towards caring for the environment, it is the one that initially has a direct link with the individual and, therefore, it is necessary to re-educate her to be the initial guide towards construction of an environmental culture. The main objective was to point out the importance of education directed towards the conformation of an environmental culture, starting from a gender perspective and its implication and direction towards the generation of an environmental sensitivity, where it is exalted that the happening of the human being directly impacts in the environment and therefore has an impact on climate change. Two main questions were started: Does gender and academic level directly influence the sensitive response of the individual towards caring for the environment? Will the more direct incorporation of women promote environmental education, which will have an impact on building an environmental culture? The research was with a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative); a cross-sectional study with a semi-structured survey. The study began with the analysis of two nominal-ordinal qualitative variables, Gender (dichotomous) as an independent variable and Environmental Sensitivity, as awareness of the negative impact of human behavior towards the environment (polytomous), as a dependent variable. Additionally, due to study needs, the variable Academic Level (school semester) (polytomic) was subsequently included. The analysis was performed through the chi-square coefficient, using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 software to measure the relationship of the variables. The results showed, in the first instance, that there is no direct relationship between Gender and Environmental Sensitivity (awareness of the negative impact of our daily activities towards the environment of the individual). Given this situation, the variable Academic Level (semester) was subsequently incorporated. With this adaptation, it was verified that there is a direct correlation of the variables, that is, the feminine gender manifested having a greater sensitivity of the impact that their daily actions generate to the environment. It was concluded that actions that directly involve women towards environmental reeducation should be promoted, where they are allowed to act directly in this proactive and axiological action. Therefore, a direct proposal is to work towards an environmental education, since it is an important factor to become aware of the work in favor of sustainable development from home, complete it at school and experience it in society, all towards an environmental culture.
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