Presence of an environmental education based on knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the teaching of natural sciences in municipal establishments of Los Angeles, Chile

Abstract

In Chile, environmental education is contemplated based on cross-curricular and interdisciplinary guidelines, and, according to the Ministry of Education, it is the teacher who must incorporate it through his or her individual teaching work. This research evaluated the presence of the main axes of environmental education (knowledge, attitudes, and practice) in natural sciences teachers from municipal schools in the city of Los Angeles, Chile. The information was obtained through a survey with the scaling developed by Likert, which was validated and subjected to a control. The results showed that teachers are not cohesively contemplating the three main axes of environmental education in the natural sciences, and consequently pupils in first and second grade in the city of Los Angeles are not receiving satisfactory teaching in the area of environmental science according to the requirements of the Chilean Ministry of Education.