Historical trends of the environmental training of the graduate in Primary Education.

Abstract

The environmental training of Cuban educators in function of sustainable development constitutes an important aspect of university life.  Its stages analysis provides a cluster of knowledge to Cuban pedagogy that allows a reconstruction of important periods for which it has gone through environmental formation.  The objective of this article lies in carrying out a trend historical analysis of the environmental training of the graduate in Primary Education, as one of the partial results of the project “Pedagogical projection of the life task at different educational levels” of the University of Camagüey “Ignacio Agramonte”, Cuba.  It highlights the use of indicators that emerge from the systematization of the environmental training of the graduate in Primary Education and its orientation for climate change, which includes work with documentary sources.  All this, together with the use of different research methods, such as: analysis and synthesis; induction-deduction; historical-logical.  The environmental training of education professionals based on sustainable development is conceived through the introduction of the environmental dimension in educational processes.  However, there are difficulties in achieving environmental change oriented; despite ascending progress from the first curricula to the present.  The trend study carried out allowed determining the historical trends of the process subject to study, considering this as a contribution to its theory.