Environmental learning: extensionist proposals in secondary education

Abstract

The purpose of this article is the analysis of university extension experiences carried out in secondary education in the year 2023 in a town in the province of Córdoba (Argentina). Two pedagogical proposals related to environmental learning, were jointly designed through extension activities. The extension experiences analyzed in this paper refer to the agroecological garden as a learning context and to the characteristics of the environment in our region. Both pedagogical practices were characterized by proposing situated, innovative, meaningful, varied and diverse activities, by recognizing the emotional aspects in environmental learning, by stimulating imagination and curiosity, by promoting collaboration, by presenting an appropriate level of difficulty and by offering possibilities of choice and control. The final reflections highlight the importance of extension work in the collaborative design of contextualized activities, and provide guidelines for future environmental extension activities.