Pedagogical model of holistic environmental formation in the students of pedagogical careers in the area of Natural Sciences in Cuba

Abstract

The article provides a pedagogical model of holistic environmental formation in the students of pedagogical careers of the area of Natural Sciences in Cuba. In correspondence with the qualitative methodology, methods such as holistic- dialectic, analysis- synthesis, inductive- deductive were applied during the epistemological foundation of the object of study, as well as modeling in the construction of the pedagogical model. 6 configurations and 3 qualities were proposed, integrated in the dimensions: contextual cognitive, contextualized educational and behavior environmental holistic formation. The results obtained allow us to conclude that by confronting the contextual partner-environmental characterization with the assimilation of environmental knowledge, the interactive complementation of environmental knowledge is fostered, from which emerges the contextual environmental holistic reflection and the holistic environmental proactive capacity, which are synthesized in the holistic environmental pedagogic performance. They constitute resulting qualities: the integrative cognitive environmental projection, the holistic environmental reflexive attitude and the holistic environmental cosmovisory behavior.