Este libro quiere entrar en la escuela para animarla a mirar con sumo interés e insistencia lo que ocurre en el medioambiente del que forma parte. Superada la separación entre lo natural y lo social, el medioambiente es cada vez más multidimensional: cercano y global, personal y colectivo, presente y futuro, causas y consecuencias, eventos y relaciones, utilitario y afectivo, imaginado y real, aprendido y vivido, condicionante y condicionado, libre y normativo, descrito y participado, etc. Para centrar esa inquietud propone al profesorado una mirada crítica colectiva desde la complejidad para que revise si existen unos saberes ambientales o son un invento, o se aprecian al resolver situaciones críticas; y si son más pertinentes unas metodologías que otras para motivar al alumnado a que transite desde los detalles al conjunto. Por eso en la segunda parte del libro se plantean sugerencias prácticas para la educación formal que abordan desde cuestiones del cambio climático, el ciclo de la vida de los productos, el uso de recursos y la generación de residuos, la gestión energética del centro escolar, las herramientas TIC en la percepción ambiental, etc., hasta llegar a las migraciones masivas, la ciudadanía global o los mapas del futuro del medioambiente dentro del contexto de unas escuelas ecosociales, tan necesarias en el momento crítico en el que vivimos.

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