ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN POSTMODERN RURAL COLOMBIA: AN APPROACH TO SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMUNITY.

Authors

  • Hugo Fernando Ríos Pantoja
  • Leidi Gisell Tabares Erazo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56219/lneaimaginaria.v3i24.5804

Keywords:

Environmental Education, Social Imaginaries, Rural Colombia, Sustainability, Postmodernity

Abstract

Environmental education in contemporary rural Colombia has been largely guided by global discourses on sustainability that prioritize technical, normative, and universalizing approaches. This scientific essay proposes a critical reading of these approaches, from the perspective of social imaginaries, through a theoretical reflection that integrates documentary and hermeneutic analysis, in order to understand how rural communities redefine environmental education beyond the instrumental paradigm of sustainability. From a postmodern perspective, it is argued that rural environmental education is configured as a field of tensions between global metanarratives and local community knowledge, giving rise to situated educational practices that emphasize the care of the territory, collective memory, and community life.

 

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Author Biographies

Hugo Fernando Ríos Pantoja

Doctorando en Educación

Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador

(UPEL – Rubio)

Venezuela

Leidi Gisell Tabares Erazo

Doctorando en Educación

Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (Upel-Rubio)

Venezuela

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Published

2026-07-10

How to Cite

Hugo Fernando Ríos Pantoja, & Leidi Gisell Tabares Erazo. (2026). ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN POSTMODERN RURAL COLOMBIA: AN APPROACH TO SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMUNITY. LÍNEA IMAGINARIA, 3(24). https://doi.org/10.56219/lneaimaginaria.v3i24.5804