Environmental Education: an efficient process for the formation of conservational attitudes in elementary school students. (Original)

Resumen

This article is the result of a thesis to solve, from the research process, the problems related to the development of environmental education in primary education, since an adequate methodological work that contributes to the development of environmental attitudes has not been achieved yet. A study of the main references that support the theoretical framework of this research is made, the trends of the development of environmental education in Cuba are declared, as well as the diagnosis of its current situation from the teaching learning process in this level of education. As a result, it contributes to the solution of this problem through the contribution of theories that enrich the methodological preparation of teachers. The article aims at declaring the references of the environmental education process in primary education, which constitutes an important theoretical and practical reference for the formation of environmental attitudes in the teaching learning process of subjects such as the World We Live in, Natural Sciences, Geography and the development of extra class activities to promote the work with environmental education.