Jose Gutiérrez-Perez

University of Granada | UGR · Educational Methodology Research

Understanding the similarities and differences between what the population think and the available science on the causes, processes, consequences and solutions of anthropogenic alteration of climatic phenomena opens a window to demonstrate that the common culture surrounding Climate Change (CC) can have a greater influence than its scientific repre...

The main argument defended in this article is that the involvement of teachers in decision-making about environmental aspects related to the management of educational institutions constitutes a powerful tool for training, teacher professional development, and environmental literacies. A group of early childhood education teachers across various ins...

This chapter revolves around the commitment to sustainability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It deals with the construction of a system of indicators of the greening of these organizations, taking as a reference the possible evidence of their commitment to sustainability. These indicators have constituted the basis for the design and val...

La formación del profesorado universitario en Educación para la Sostenibilidad es una prioridad para dotar de calidad a las universidades y dar respuesta, desde este ámbito, a las problemáticas socioambientales enmarcadas en la Agenda 2030 a través de los Objetivos para el Desarrollo Sostenible. La presente investigación pretende poner en valor una...

In this article, we explore the dimensions of the climate crisis. We start with the radical articulation of scientific, political, and social aspects that delays improved responses to the problem. We refer to this perspective as the triple driver of climate change. We emphasize the educational dimension, and in particular, educational intervention...

The shortage of water in the Iberian Peninsula has become one of the most pressing environmental problems and of greater transcendence in recent decades. This issue is also underlined at the international level because of climate change. The proliferation of interpretation centers that focus their attention on water in Spain is a relevant response...

El desarrollo profesional del profesorado de Educación Superior y su formación en sostenibilidad en es una prioridad máxima para dotar de calidad a las universidades y así, dar respuesta desde este ámbito a las problemáticas socioambientales enmarcadas en la Agenda 2030 a través de los Objetivos para el Desarrollo Sostenible. La presente investigac...

Presentación del número monográfico de la Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa sobre EDUCACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN PARA EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO (RMIE, 2020, VOL. 25, NÚM. 87, PP. 819-842 (ISSN: 14056666 • ISSN-e: 25942271).

En este artículo exploramos las dimensiones de la crisis climática a partir de la articulación radical de lo científico, lo político y lo social que provoca la procrastinación de medidas de respuesta que permitirían encarar mejor los desafíos de este problema. A esta perspectiva la hemos denominado la triple hélice del cambio climático. Enfatizamos...

The relationship between climate change and water is an obvious and key issue within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This study aims to investigate the social representation created around this relationship in three different territorial contexts in order to evaluate the influence of the territory on the perception of the risk of...

The relationship between Climate Change and Water is an obvious and key issue within the Sustainable Development Goals. This study aims to investigate the social representation created around this relationship in three different territorial contexts in order to evaluate the influence of the territory on the perception of the risk of Climate Change...

The UN’s 2030 Agenda brings new governance challenges to municipal environmental planning, both in large urban centres and in metropolitan peripheries. The opportunities of the new framework of action proposed by the United Nations (UN) and its integrative, global and transversal nature constitute advances from the previous models of municipal mana...

What kind of serious games dealing with climate change are out there? Do these types of games share similar quality levels across borders? The purpose of this article is to carry out a comparative quality assessment of games produced in two different countries: United States and Spain. For this purpose, we develop and put into practice a tool to as...

This article reports on a study about climate literacy. University students pursuing eight different degrees within the branches of the social sciences and humanities at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Granada were sent a questionnaire. Students signed a written consent form and 677 questionnaires were answered. The s...

Video games have the potential to educate and engage people—especially young people—in climate change and energy issues by facilitating the development of helpful thoughts, feelings, and actions. The objective of the present article is to propose a set of game attributes that could maximise the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural engagement of pl...

Sustainability is increasing their presence at universities, so it is convenient to reflect on the impact and effectiveness that university sustainability actions are having. Several authors have recognized mature experiences about environmental sustainability in the different dimensions of higher education: teaching, research, operations and outre...

Videogames have become educational, communicative and social tools among the young, favouring the acquisition of skills, abilities and values, encompassing an endless number of themes, and helping them to experience and to face, in the first person, a great diversity of environmental situations and ecology problems. Thus, the present article aims:...

This article compares the level of climate literacy observed among university students enrolled on different academic courses, sampled at the start and end of their degrees (N = 1,149). The study involved distributing a questionnaire about various scientific topics related to Climate Change (CC) and aims to analyse the extent to which differences c...

There is an urgent need to curb emissions and mitigate climate change, and this fight requires a change in teenagers’ attitudes. In search of new approaches targeting youth, online games are seen as a promising tool for communication and education. Using the serious game 2020 Energy as a case study, the main objective of this paper is to examine th...

Climate change (CC) is one of the challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. The complex nature of the phenomenon requires further empiric research from the field of social sciences in general, and environmental psychology in particular. Clarifying how people and human communities interpret, evaluate and act in relation to climate chan...

Videogames have become educational, communicative and social tools among the youngest, favouring the acquisition of skills, abilities and values, encompassing an endless number of themes, and help to experience and to face, in the first person, a great diversity of environmental situations and ecology problems. Thus, the present article aims: a) th...

Los ecosistemas acuáticos generan una serie de servicios fundamentales para mantener el bienestar humano y el mantenimiento de la vida en la biosfera. Sin embargo, la actividad humana está generando un gran impacto en dichos ecosistemas, pues altera el funcionamiento y el mantenimiento de estos, así como pone en riesgo la supervivencia y el bienest...

RESUMEN: Este trabajo analiza los conocimientos sobre el cambio climático (CC) del alumnado universitario tomando como referente la teoría de las representaciones sociales 1. A partir de un cuestio-nario con opciones de respuesta cerradas se ha recopilado una muestra de 404 casos en las Universida-des de Santiago de Compostela y Granada. Las cinco...

Introducción. En la presente investigación pretendemos determinar la influencia que una colección de variables de tipo pronóstico y proceso (opinión del alumnado hacia la estadística, su dedicación a los contenidos de estadística, la valoración de los materiales didácticos y la labor del docente en la enseñanza de la estadística) han jugado en la r...

Online games have been proposed as a promising tool for communication and education. Taking into account the new communicative paradigm of young people and the fact that climate change is one of the main threats to their future, this paper presents a checklist of indicators validated using the Delphi method to analyze the communicative elements of...

In search of innovative approaches to raise climate change awareness among digital natives, online and serious games are gaining currency as new platforms for communication, education and social change. Thanks to their interactivity and immersive narrative, games have capacity to convey to young people the problems that they will be facing in the f...

La literatura empírica sobre calidad de las revistas científicas ha puesto énfasis en criterios de calidad de proceso (evaluación de pares) y de producto (impacto y visibilidad). Menos atención se ha dedicado a los estándares, políticas de calidad editorial y guidelines previos a la revisión de manuscritos. El propósito de este artículo es describi...

A pesar del creciente interés por los juegos en línea en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje, los docentes son escasamente orientados sobre las características de los juegos disponibles en la red y su potencial educomunicativo. El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es ofrecer un instrumento validado de evaluación para los juegos en línea sobre...

The paper presents a descriptive study that analyzes the relationship between science and common culture in the social representations of problems arising from climate change, stressing the importance of promoting adequate communication and education on climate risks and their implications for health. The global climate change on Earth due to natur...

Los juegos online han sido propuestos como una herramienta de comunicación y educación prometedora. Teniendo en cuenta que el cambio climático es una de las principales amenazas a las que se enfrentarán los adolescentes en su futuro, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal la evaluación de los elementos comunicativos y educativos de una s...

In search of innovative approaches capable of connecting climate change issues with teenagers, scholars and practitioners have become interested in harnessing the potential of gaming for advancing climate change communication. This article aims to propose a set of criteria, validated by experts through the Delphi method, by which to analyze communi...

The following research is aimed to analyze teaching practice related to the sustainable management in Pre-School Education (PE) centers. We understand sustainable management as those behavior patterns related to the treatment of resources in the center which employ them in an environmentally respectful way.

Developing healthy lifestyles among the youth makes mandatory the identification of good professional practices of social intervention with this collective, which establish work patterns that counteract the effects of misuse of leisure, and which promote healthy and sustainable leisure habits. Along this work, we tackle the identification of these...

This article analyses climate literacy among university students, using their knowledge about the causes of climate change. Based on the theory of social representation, this comparative study examined a sample of 503 students. Using drawings and text, students were asked to respond to the question ‘What is climate change?’ They then completed an a...

This article analyses climate literacy among university students, using their knowledge about the causes of climate change. Based on the theory of social representation, this comparative study examined a sample of 503 students. Using drawings and text, students were asked to respond to the question 'What is climate change?' They then completed an a...

En este trabajo se evalúa un programa de formación virtual (AULAVEA) centrado en la sensibilización ambiental de colectivos profesionales de sectores primarios diversos como cocina, albañilería y gestión de residuos, entre otros. En dicho curso participó una muestra internacional de estudiantes del ámbito iberoamericano seleccionados previamente. T...

The university volunteer programs in Argentina encourage entrepreneurship culture through the development of innovative socio-environmental projects that promote a joint effort between the different administrations of the State, the universities and regional social organizations. One, called “environment and social inclusion” has been undertaken si...

Estudio de Caso sobre las reacciones emocionales, las causas sociales y las implicaciones que tuvo para el aprendizaje el conflicto ambiental generado por el hundimiento del Prestige. Esta investigación se desarrolló en los meses posteriores al suceso en los lugares más afectados por la catástrofe.

An environmental audit study is presented, based on the opinions of students and teachers about the possibilities of improvements to the environmental resource management of twelve primary education centres in the region of Andalucía (Spain), and the guidelines for implementing programs for curriculum greening that are committed to the environment...

This paper is intended to help lay the groundwork for the formulation and design of programs and materials for environmental education focused on water issues and based on the perspective of the new water culture and ecosystem services. The methodology is based on a study of the type of environmental education promoted in a sample of programs and r...

During the last decade Environmental Education (EE) programs have drawn attraction from both experts and educators as a way to answer the increasing preoccupation about the different challenges and problems faced by the Environment. For this reason, many schools have started programmes and strategies related to EE with different success. In this wo...

The study presents a comparative analysis of two virtual learning formats: one non-formal through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the other formal through b-learning. We compare the communication barriers and the satisfaction perceived by the students (N = 249) by developing a qualitative analysis using semi-structured questionnaires and co...

El presente trabajo se centra en la figura educativa de las ecoescuelas en el contexto de los países iberoamericanos. Se pretende obtener una visión crítica de su papel en la sociedad actual, recurriendo para ello a una revisión de la literatura y a la novedosa utilización, de modo simultáneo, de dos metodologías: el metanálisis documental y el aná...

This work aims to state the importance of the perceptions of the infantile population as a starting point for the establishment of priorities in the municipal management. From the design of creative instruments adapted to infantile population (such as the “Letter to the Municipal Representatives” designed for this study) it is possible to carry out...

Environmental health can be integrated in the education system through Environmental Education (EE). The present research aims to state the perceptions of Preschool Education (PE) teachers regarding EE. More specifically, we aim to find out the predisposition of these professionals when including EE in their daily practice. Interviewed subjects sho...

La proliferación de herramientas virtuales en formato Web y programas interactivos al servicio de la divulgación ecológica y la alfabetización ambiental de los ciudadanos constituye un campo de interés creciente para la investigación. Este texto aborda un análisis empírico de las webs y blogs de temáticas ambientales de mayor impacto mediático en c...

This study focuses mainly on the search for new-generation models of democracy based on the principles of governance and the quality of public drinking water services. We analyse the participatory initiatives implemented by the Argentinian government over the past twenty years and look at how these have led to alternative models for utility operato...

Can cinema become a vehicle to promote a reflection about the environment that will foster the adoption of values based on planet citizenship, socially responsible attitudes, and environmental commitment? The critical analysis that is presented here of environmental conflicts, as reflected in Latin American cinematographic narratives, can contribut...

This paper focuses on the educational figure of eco-schools within the context of Latin American countries. The aim is to obtain a critical review of their role in present-day society, resorting to a revision of the literature and the novel-simultaneous use of two methodologies: documentary meta-analysis, and SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, o...

In view of the growing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in present-day societies, in this article we questioned the extent to which environmental educators make use of them in their teaching work. To discover this, we designed an on-line Likert-type questionnaire that began with the creation of an international virtual commun...

In this paper, we analyze the analogies and differences of the Eco-school Programs (EP) between Primary and Secondary centers. We aim to determine the existence of elements which differentiate the planning, implementation, management models, content and the execution of different EP projects and their related activities. A sample of 20 eco-schools...

This paper focuses on the educational figure of eco-schools within the context of Latin American countries. The aim is to obtain a critical review of their role in present-day society, resorting to a revision of the literature and the novel -simultaneous- use of two methodologies: documentary meta-analysis, and SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses,...

Nos encontramos inmersos en cambios sustanciales en cuanto a la formación del alumnado universitario con el proceso de convergencia europea. Esto, unido a los proceso de calidad y mejora en los que nuestra universidad está trabajando hace necesario plantearse un plan formativo en la materia de prácticas docentes en centros externos acorde a este nu...

En el presente documento, se recoge el Plan de Prácticas del Máster Universitario de Formación de Profesorado de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas. Dicho plan fue aprobado en la Comisión Académica del Máster, celebrada el día 1 de febrero de 2010, estableciéndose en el mismo todos los crite...

En el tramo final del Máster, una vez concluido y evaluado positivamente el periodo de formación teórica y habiendo iniciado las prácticas en centros docentes e instituciones formativas, los estudiantes deben elaborar un Trabajo de Fin de Máster (TFM) que, una vez concluidas y superadas las prácticas, será entregado y defendido públicamente ante un...

El presente cuaderno de prácticas intenta ser un documento de trabajo para los estudiantes que van a realizar el Practicum del Máster Universitario de Formación de Profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas de la Universidad de Granada. Este documento tiene como objetivo principal ayu...

Nos encontramos inmersos en cambios sustanciales en cuanto a la formación del alumnado universitario con el proceso de convergencia europea. Esto, unido a los proceso de calidad y mejora en los que nuestra universidad está trabajando hace necesario plantearse un plan formativo en la materia de prácticas docentes en centros externos acorde a este nu...

El presente cuaderno de prácticas intenta ser un documento de trabajo para los estudiantes que van a realizar el Prácticum del Máster Universitario de Formación de Profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas de la Universidad de Granada. Este documento tiene como objetivo principal ayu...

This article deals with one of the priorities set by the Rio Summit (1992) within 'Agenda 21' and, in particular, School Agenda 21, whose main aim is to 'green' schools. The overall objective of this study is to evaluate and compare different dimensions relevant to this aim in a sample of 31 Chilean and Spanish eco-schools, ie schools with institut...

Human resources training in environment university careers is relatively new in Argentina. It can be said that the offers start at the early '90s, so nascent, then strengthened from the beginning of the XXI century. The present case corresponds to one of those degrees called Environmental Management, which belongs to the Faculty of Humanities and S...

The proliferation of virtual tools in Web format and interactive programs at the service of ecological spreading and environmental literacy of citizens represents an area of growing interest for research. This paper addresses an empirical analysis of the environmental websites and blogs of greater media impact in Spanish-speaking contexts. Evaluati...