Environmental training experience at the Tijuana Ecopark Project, Mexico

Abstract

The conservation of the environment depends, to a great extent, on the education of children and young people in this respect. In response to this and to the supposed limitations that a significant number of teachers present in the teaching of this problem, an exploration and training project was carried out through a course-workshop with the participation of elementary and high school teachers, with the objective of broadening knowledge about the problem of climate change: Its nature, causes and foreseeable consequences for regions with peculiar characteristics that make them a priority, as is the case of Mexico’s northern border, for which an Integral Instructional and Formative Curricular Design (DICIF) was used and adapted to apply it to environmental issues. The course was carried out in the environmental equipment called ECOPARQUE, directed by the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This paper presents a brief introduction where reference is made to the importance of the Environmental Education Program of Ecoparque for the realization of activities within the so-called non-formal education, where the environment is taken as the integrating context of learning, then the methodology used is explained, showing the results obtained in the course-workshop on climate change called: “The strengthening of school environmental management in Baja California”, once the discussion of the same is presented, the conclusions are given to finish with the bibliographical references caused with the subject.