Environmental Education and conservation: A glimpse from a Rural Women Collective

Abstract

This article is based on a Master's Thesis carried out in the Solís Grande Stream Middle Basin Environmental Protection Area (APASG). Based on this work, a Rural Women's Collective was identified, together with which a participative action-research process was developed.

The objective of the work was to design an Environmental Education proposal that strengthens the activities that are developed and encourages the integration and participation of the Rural Women's Collective of Piedras de Afilar in the APASG. The methodological strategy was composed of participant observation and participatory action-research, in which a mapping of the body-territory and timeline stand out.

The main results reflect the slow times of the environmental education process given according to the possibilities of the human group, mainly when working with women. Regarding the link with conservation, the group does not know exactly what the area implies, its meaning, scope and potential. In this sense, it is important that the protection areas articulate with the actors that are in them or their surroundings and contribute to a better quality of life for their inhabitants. The need to include a gender perspective is highlighted to include the perspective of women in relation to the APASG.