Análisis de las representaciones sociales de ambiente en investigaciones de maestría en educación ambiental en tres universidades de Colombia, publicadas entre 2015 – 2018

Abstract

Environmental Education uses social representations of the environment as a fundamental analysis tool that provides information about the relationships between human beings from inquiry, reflection and experience with the environment of which they are part and build a systemic or simplistic knowledge of that relationship with the environment. The investigation of the construction of these social behaviors has generated scientific investigations in different human groups at the Latin American level and in Colombia in order to investigate which are the social representations of environment present or absent in said studies according to various theoretical currents; to identify the influence and repercussion of human actions towards their environment. In order to address the social representations of the SRE environment in this research, it was necessary to have postgraduate work carried out in Colombia between 2015 - 2018 related to environmental education and more specifically with Social Representations of the Environment, sources of theoretical-practical information and theoretical categories that allowed classify these works within the SRE. According to this information, and in order to analyze the SREs in the relevant postgraduate studies, this research was based on documentary analysis with tools of the method of content analysis and association of words (units of analysis), which were then Qualitative analysis software was classified into the subcategories of SRE and thus assess their prevalence. In addition, in support of the EArte Project, the pertinent and requested information was recorded in its database as a contribution to the analysis of academic production in Latin America in order to identify theses that focus their research on the relationship between the educational process and environmental issues. In this research work, the theses of the University of Tolima, University of Manizales and University of Applied and Environmental Sciences presented a research approach associated with the social representation of a globalizing environment that is identified with the focus of the academic programs of each university, the general approaches of each thesis and theoretical information, which allows analyzing the implications of this RSA in the academic practice of master's students and the human communities under analysis.