Design proposal towards an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education: Theoretical analysis of an innovative practice

Abstract

Environmental protection has become, especially in recent decades, a relevant issue thatconcerns people and that is very present in the European and international political agendas.One of the most useful means of raising awareness of the environment and the fight againstclimate change is environmental education. However, this is a specialty not yet speciallydefined, which in the educational fields is offered in different ways (as an independent subject,tangential to others, within science education, etc.). This work aims to defend the need for aninterdisciplinary environmental education that can be presented in any subject. It presents,through a qualitative and descriptive methodology, the theoretical analysis of innovativeeducational practice in the context of secondary education and from the perspective of severalspecialties, focused on the description of the passage in the Europe of the Middle Ages. Theresult offered is a model of classroom programming, articulated through a didactic monographthat is the basis of the practice, which is offered as an example for implementing newproposals for instructional design of environmental education from an interdisciplinaryapproach. The presence of environmental problems in any subject and theme offers the bestframework for the awareness processes so necessary today.