Formació d'educadors en ciutats històriques en el marc de l'educació per a la sostenibilitat. Estudi de cas del Programa d'educació ambiental i coneixement de la ciutat de Girona

Resumen

This dissertation is structured around two purposes: the first one is to identify the skills and professional capacities, based on education for sustainability, that the non formal educators which work in historical cities must possess. The second one, consists of contributing an evaluation process - addressed to the first purpose - of an educational running program: the Environmental Education and Knowledge of the City Program, belonging to the council of Girona.The results for the case study are contributed - strong points, weak points and proposals to improve -, and they can induce to change and transformation of the Program. Related to educators training in historical cities, twelve formative fields and sixty-five skills and professional capacities are identified. The formative fields are the following: communication; groups invigorating; critical thinking; holistic vision of reality; commitment with environment; values for sustainability; holistic and patrimonial sight of environment; future view of environment; methodologies and abilities for teaching; evaluation and research; theories and practices of education for sustainability; disciplinary knowledge. The formative fields, skills and professional capacities, are justified starting from the results of the case study and the theoretical framework used in the research development.