VALORES EN EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL PARA LA PREVENCIÓN DE DESASTRES

Abstract

The educational project on disaster prevention is an approximation towards apedagogical strategy in significant learning, in values formation and conceptsconstruction for the mountain system and the factors that affect the antropic steadystateequilibrium of the environment.The design centers on teachers, students and community values clarification in order toincorporate geological hazards on vulnerability and risk of disasters. The main objectiveof the study was to design a curricula and to develop the educational. Project ondisasters prevention that improve knowledge of existing hazard condition anddistributions, as well as attitudes and values towards disasters.The pedagogical .strategy tend, to minimize the risk of the disasters in the Andesmountains in which there are hazards such debris flows, rack-fall, subsidence andfloods.The values considered were: the person as center, the pertinence, property sense andself-steem. The curricula six students modules named “The people of the mountains’?The Mountains ecosystem, the livig beings, The Planet earth, and the machines and thePedagogical project in disaster prevention for the teachers.The curricula were validated la schools of Utica and Choachi (Cundinamarcadepartment).