Caracterización de la participación de los integrantes del Comité Ambiental Escolar del Colegio Orlando Fals Borda en la implementación del proyecto ambiental escolar año 2015, en la localidad Quinta de Usme-Bogotá D.C.

Abstract

The problem under investigation was related to characterization of participation of School Environmental Comitee members in the School Environmental Project. In environmental education the participation inside educational institutions has not been yet evaluated in terms of quality and approach, leading to a limited practice and unability to measure its incidence in terms of active and environmental responsible citizenship construction. For this research development it was employed a qualitative-descriptive methodology by means of a case study. Documentary revision, focal group interviews, surveys, descriptive and a SWOT analysis was performed, which allowed to place the participation level of the comitee and to propose some recommendations for his posterior enhancement. Theoretical references were taken into account to chategorize the participation level, taking into account social, communitary and scholar scopes. From this analysis tree major categories were determined, inexistent, acceptable and authentic, along with other twenty one subcategories obtained from common and complementary elements from authors anf focused to shool environment which made easier the classification of activities, discourses and representations ina particular category. The participation of the Shool Environmental Comitee was chategorized in an acceptable level at which the members are informed, consulted and decisions made by other actors are shared, evidencing the necessity of a truly embracing participation process towards an authentic participation. It is suggested to board on participation among the school community from an active and environmental responsible citizenship perspective, involving powerness and conciousness relationships, in order to open scenarios for collaborative construction of dynamic processes with the intention to develop cutting edge activites to strengthen decision making quality with multiple options, as well as a deep conscience level pointing to social reality transformation, using the complex perspective in environmental education as a framework.