ECOPEDAGOGY IN EDUCATION TO STRENGTHEN CRITICAL THINKING

Abstract

UNESCO has mandated that education must be an essential driving force to promote sustainable development, conceived in this way as a central axis of all educational levels. Hence, studying ecopedagogy will serve to articulate the actions emanated by international organizations, highlighting the importance of rethinking the curricular bases, emphasizing the incorporation of values ​​and principles that defend the Earth Charter. These elements must be integrated into the contents, concepts and design of the materials used by didactics so that they adjust to an education that aims at the transformation of thinking from a critical perspective oriented by sustainability, thus having a compendium of educational actions that contribute from the integrity, understanding and complexity of the world through solidarity and respect for life and the environment. In this sense, the methodology is documentary and a descriptive level to reflect on the relevance of ecopedagogy in critical thinking in primary education, taking into account postulates about holistic education and complex thinking. It is highlighted that this pedagogy promotes a critical and complex understanding of the world, oriented towards the understanding of the sustainability of the environment to project an education that promotes the transformation of the individual, for the critical construction of  sustainable knowledge.