Sustainability at the Sociology Educative Program as a basis for the design of a methodological proposal for a Non-Formal Socio-Environmental Education Program (NFSEEP)

Abstract

Environmental crisis has impacted on the environmental, social, and economic. This affects sustainable development. Education is a strategy to face this crisis. This education has to consider the environment as a work matter so that it contributes to promoting socio-environmental Knowledge in people. Universities must incorporate sustainability into their curricula. This study integrated two phases. The first considered the analysis of the sustainability into the curriculum through a rubric, a green audit to the institution through a check list and a survey to 115 students and 7 teachers, also a structured interview to 110 students and 7 teachers. The elements of sustainability were the dimension. The second phase focused to the methodological proposal of NFSEEP.  Results: The rubric evaluation registered 4, the maximum was 10, it expressed a little link between curriculum and sustainability. The green audit registered “bad” and “regular” aspects related to socio-environmental. The interview and survey showed similar results, they indicated sustainability minimally is integrated in the curriculum and at teaching-learning process. In relation to the second phase, it was designed a methodological proposal on a NFSEEP. It was a mixed study, had two aims, identify the sustainability at sociology program and the design of the NFSEEP.