The Ecosocial Competence in a Context of Multidimensional Crisis

Abstract

School contexts are directly affected by the multidimensional crisis we live in today. In the face of this crisis, education can assume and integrate the problems as they happen, and integrate them into the student learning scheme from a critical and active position, or, on the contrary, not position itself, and remain in reproductive inertia of the social order. Ecosocial competence is essential to place sustainability and environmental justice at the centre of educational action, deepening democratic processes and social justice, which are fundamental elements for moving towards an educational paradigm capable of engaging with the praxis of social change. From curricular content to methodological strategies and evaluation, eco-social competence completely crosses the entire curriculum design to be an essential part of the teaching-learning process in the last levels of concretion. Intending to draw utopias to build a desirable present, eco-social competence acquires a fundamental role as a way to transcend a civilization where people have alternative collective objectives.