Teaching Geography for a Sustainable Future: Understanding and Analyzing Regions in the Classroom—A Didactic Proposal
This work analyzes the educational role of geography in Spain in addressing climate change and the environmental crisis. While all subjects should address ecological issues, geography, due to its content, objectives, and methods, must take a central role in environmental education through innovative...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Education Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/2/126 |
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| Summary: | This work analyzes the educational role of geography in Spain in addressing climate change and the environmental crisis. While all subjects should address ecological issues, geography, due to its content, objectives, and methods, must take a central role in environmental education through innovative pedagogical approaches. To contribute to this revitalization, a didactic proposal is presented, aimed at raising students’ environmental awareness in the subjects of geography and history. Designed for the third year of secondary education (ESO) in the Canary Islands, this proposal is flexible and applicable to other educational and territorial contexts. Based on methodologies such as Project-Based Learning and Service-Learning, it organizes a teaching unit adapted to the new curricular requirements. Students analyze the socio-territorial reality of their municipality, assess its sustainability, and design strategies to promote sustainable development. The implementation of this didactic proposal is highly valued, as it has increased the students’ knowledge about their locality, the possibilities and richness of geography as a discipline, and also sustainability as a goal applicable to a local context. In this way, the value of education as a continuous reflection and a practical problem-solving tool is reaffirmed, incorporating sustainability as an essential principle. |
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| ISSN: | 2227-7102 |