Abstract

MORENO-CRESPO, Pilar  and  MORENO-FERNANDEZ, Olga. Socio-environmental problems: concepts in initial teacher training. Andamios [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.29, pp.73-96. ISSN 2594-1917.

The fast pace of changes in the last decades necessarily faces us into a new way to understand and relate to the planet we live on, and Education has a lot to say about it. Our study aims to describe the concepts concerning the socio-environmental initial training problems of teachers, through a sample of 144 College students of Primary Education in the Spanish Universities of Seville and Extremadura, during the Academic Year 14/15. The results achieved through an open questionnaire they had to complete, even hopeful in some points, show that a long way is still in front of us in terms of work and awareness. The educational curriculum, the school organization and, of course, the families of the students show up as the main difficulties for opening the doors between the school and its environment.

Keywords : Education; environment; society; socio-environmental problems in initial teacher training.