Environmental education in educational institutions: a theoretical review.

Abstract

The purpose of this review work is to compare scientific articles on environmental education in educational institutions of secondary and primary education. To carry out this literature review, 133 articles from the Scopus database and 5 articles from Scielo were examined in English and Spanish, between 2017 and 2021. The terms used for the search were: “environmental education”, “environmental education” and “school”. Likewise, 30 articles that were previously organized were used for the analysis of the results. in a table of analysis and selection of articles by article title, author (s) and year, country, sample, methodological design, and contributions to the review. From this review, it was found that environmental education contributes to the awareness process of students in educational institutions for the care and protection of the environment and thus achieve sustainable development.