Education in Times of Climate Change for Human Resilience and Environmental Regeneration

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.25-2.30

Keywords:

Climate change, education, environmental regeneration, environmental resilience.

Abstract

This article addresses human resilience and environmental regeneration in training the population to adapt and mitigate climate change’s negative effects. The objective is to let teachers know about these constructs’ implications in the behavior of societies in future climate scenarios and the urgent need for their assessment in the classroom. Constructing the essay implied conducting a thorough review of updated bibliography available in indexed journals and documents of international organizations and its subsequent pedagogical contextualization. The analysis allowed concluding that the school should strengthen, in its students, the biological, cognitive, and emotional processes related to resilience to endure uncertain, vulnerable, and complex environments as a result of the occurrence of extreme temperature events (heat and cold waves) and precipitation (droughts, floods, hurricanes). Likewise, education must train future societies to undertake environmental regeneration processes that rebuild the broken tissues of nature as a mechanism to mitigate and compensate for anthropic damages. In these pedagogical scenarios, the school is an institution of the first order to train citizens who will inhabit a planet with environmental conditions and natural resources still unknown to human beings today. Implementing the analyzed constructs requires educational policies, school curricula, and teachers trained to develop them in their classrooms.

Author Biographies

José de Jesus Núñez-Rodríguez, Universidad de Santander

Ingeniero Agrónomo, Pedagogo en Educación Agropecuaria, Maestría en Gerencia de Empresas Agrícolas, Doctor en Educación y PostDoctor en Educación Latinoamericana. 25 años de experiencia en docencia e investigación en  universidades venezolanas y colombianas. Se desempeña como docente-investigador en la Universidad de Santander, Campus Cúcuta, Colombia, en cátedras de Investigación y como Director de proyectos de investigación en el área de cambio climático.

Julio César Carvajal-Rodríguez, Universidad de Santander

Filósofo, Especialista en Administración de la Informática Educativa y Doctor en Educación. Se desempeña como Director del Departamento de Educación y docente-investigador en la Universidad de Santander, Campus Cúcuta, Colombia. Es Investigador en la Categoría Junior de Colciencias.  

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Published

2021-04-09

How to Cite

Education in Times of Climate Change for Human Resilience and Environmental Regeneration (J. de J. Núñez-Rodríguez & J. C. Carvajal-Rodríguez , Trans.). (2021). Revista Electrónica Educare, 25(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.25-2.30

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How to Cite

Education in Times of Climate Change for Human Resilience and Environmental Regeneration (J. de J. Núñez-Rodríguez & J. C. Carvajal-Rodríguez , Trans.). (2021). Revista Electrónica Educare, 25(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.25-2.30

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