Las competencias ciudadanas como generadoras de cultura ambiental

Abstract

Citizen competencies are a component that promotes favorable habits towards the environment, which is why the present study has focused on the strengthening of citizen competencies that allow the conservation of the environment through the promotion of values, such as responsibility, the respect and the sense of belonging to the ecological resources for the improvement of the educational quality, through the transversal processes in the science, technology and innovation areas. The research of quantitative type, of descriptive scope, and the survey was applied as an instrument of information gathering. Within the results it can be said that there is a great motivation on the part of the students to acquire environmental competences, however, activities must continue to be developed under the direction of the teachers and that they should look for the design of strategies to achieve this end.