“MI SALON ES UNA NOTA”, A STRATEGY TO CULTIVATE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, BASED ON THE REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE HABITS

Abstract

“Mi salón es una nota” is a strategy that begin at the I.E. La Merced in the municipality of Agrado – Huila, because deterioration was observed in classrooms, desks, green areas, common spaces, poor disposal of the solid waste generated, waste and misuse of water resources. This is probably caused by the lack of environmental awareness of the educational community, or the students' low sense of belonging to their school, by the lack of knowledge of ways to use solid waste or by not being aware of the dangers that are generated in landfills when they are overloaded with waste.  Therefore, this research seeks to cultivate the 4 dimensions of environmental awareness, namely, the cognitive, affective, conative, and active dimensions, and to measure the latter through the constant review of articulated actions or habits by the student and their classroom as a social system. The research is framed within a positivist paradigm, a quantitative approach, and an inductive method. The data obtained from the active dimension, that is, from the habit review, are systematized and subsequently processed using decision trees to determine patterns and predict future group behaviors, thus strengthening the necessary habits focused on achieving the research objective. As conclusions, it is obtained that the generation of environmental awareness can be measured through habits, articulated actions, or specific activities. The applied methodology is adequate for observing school environmental problems. The patterns obtained through decision trees clearly account for prescriptions and possible predictions of groups as a social system and their aspects that need to be improved. Separation at the source can be naturalized and become part of the student's daily life