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T1 Evaluating university gardens as innovative practice in Education for Sustainability: a Latin-American case study
A1 Fontalvo Buelvas, Juan Camilo
A1 Eugenio Gozalbo, Marcia
A1 Cruz Elizondo, Yadeneyro de la
A1 Escalona Aguilar, Miguel Ángel
K1 Education
K1 Sustainability
K1 Gardens
K1 Huertos
K1 Sustainability - Education
K1 Educación ambiental
K1 Sustainable development
K1 Desarrollo sostenible
K1 Environmental indicators
K1 Indicadores ecológicos
K1 Ecology
K1 Ecología
K1 Higher education
K1 Enseñanza universitaria
K1 Educational innovations - Evaluation
K1 Innovaciones educativas - Evaluación
K1 Latin America
K1 América Latina
K1 5312.04 Educación
AB The aim of this study was to define a protocol for evaluating university gardens as innovative practice in Education for Sustainability and to apply it to a Latin-American study case, that of the Agroecological Garden in the Faculty of Biology at the Veracruzana University (Mexico). A comparative evaluation was conducted between two different moments (December 2018 and January 2021) based on sustainability indicators that were adapted from the SAEMETH-G methodology, using three levels of increasing complexity. These levels were the selection of sustainability dimensions, the individuation of the components, and the selection of the appropriate indicators. At the beginning of 2021, the selected Agroecological Garden showed high sustainability, with an accumulated score of 84.04 out of a total of 100 points, with the agro-environmental dimension being the best positioned (93.74), followed by the socio-educational (91.99) and the economic-administrative (66.4) domains. A significant robustness at the socio-environmental level was evidenced. However, it is necessary to address the substantial deficiencies evidenced at the economic-administrative level, especially in relation to financing and institutionalization, in order to make this innovative didactic resource sustainable and thus contribute to education for sustainability among university students.
SN 2071-1050
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/69352
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/69352
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 2023, Vol. 15, Nº. 5, 3975
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-dic-2024