La Carta de la Tierra: experiencias internacionales de innovación en educación superior

• Published in: Teoría de la educación Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 79 - 107
• Main Authors: María ARENAS ORTIZ, Eva Francisca HINOJOSA PAREJA, María Carmen LÓPEZ LÓPEZ
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 01-11-2013
• Subjects: carta de la tierra; ecopedagogía e innovación; educación en valores; educación sostenible
• ISSN: 1130-3743; 2386-5660
• DOI: 10.14201/teri.11151

The Earth Charter is a civil society initiative that aims to strengthen the value of sustainability and interdependence between people and their contexts (Gorbachev,2006). This statement, endorsed by unesco, is considered a valuable educational tool in international projects such as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) promoted by United Nations. This work focuses on the study, through a methodology based on the content analysis of various international experiences taking the Earth Charter as a benchmark for innovation in Higher Education. Our results bring us closer to the action taken, the nature of the motivation that makes them possible, the progress made, the degree of commitment of the actors and communities involved, while providing keys to advance the development of new initiatives Higher Education more committed to sustainability.