Percepción ambiental de los estudiantes de grado once de la Institución Educativa Distrital Villas de Progreso, a partir del trabajo en la huerta escolar.

Abstract

Starting in the 1970s, it became necessary for the world to begin addressing the environmental issue due to population growth and the evident deterioration of the environment, the main cause of which has been determined by human actions, to the point of endangering its own survival and perpetuation as a biological species. Society must change its classical conception that nature is a passive, infinite element that regenerates automatically to consider it an active element with limited regeneration capacity. This need for profound transformations must be carried out through citizen participation, which aims to create awareness of our environment, being responsible for its use and maintenance. In this sense, school gardens are a scenario to promote awareness of caring for the environment, creating an evident link between urban agriculture and formal education that is mainly carried out within educational institutions. Research carried out by educators from Havana and Philadelphia explain from their own perspectives how the implementation of school gardens will be predicted in a strategy that contributes to individual and collective benefit in institutional and community settings