STRUCTURING AN ECOLOGICAL ROUTE AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL IN A TEACHER TRAINING UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The Ecological Route is a structure of a natural or semi-natural area, modified or not, used as a pedagogical tool. UPEL-IPMAR is a teacher training university in Venezuela, which has privileged natural areas, and its non-use represents a problem.  Given this need, the development of an ecological path in the form of a Route is proposed that will increase the pedagogical use of the spaces. Methodologically, this work has a qualitative approach. A group of teachers from the university community was taken as the population: four teachers from the Biology Specialty, one Initial and one from Social Sciences. The information was obtained through a survey with open and closed responses. As a result, an ecological route was established made up of six stations with their main plant species duly identified and it was concluded that the participants have a repertoire of logical-scientific knowledge that comes from their daily sensory experiences on the hiking routes.