Abstract

AYUSO-ALVAREZ, Ana M.; CULQUI LEVANO, Dante Roger  and  MORAN BARROSO, Alberto. European landscape convention challenges to introducelandscape in the educational system. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp.293-310. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v16i2.23986.

The European Landscape Convention (CEP), first international treatment of sustainable development, in which the landscape is defined as "A part of the territory as perceived by people, whose character results from the action of natural and / or human factors and their interrelations," it arises from the unprecedented concern on landscape´s degradation in Europe during the second part of XX century. CEP recognizes education as a tool for landscape conservation. The aim of this research is to check the degree of interest and feasibility of including landscape in the education system. To do this, we conducted in-depth interviews with experts in landscape, questionnaires to students, and discussion groups for teachers. The study took place in Madrid (Spain) Community. Among the results, we highlight the absence of the identity component in the conceptualization of the landscape; the lack of interest among the students to include it in their curriculum, because it not facilitate their incorporation into the labor market; and the impossibility for his inclusion in the educational system, because of the teacher's resistance and lack of resources. Based on these results it is recommended not introducing the landscape as a subject anymore, but make it as a learning environment and within the framework of inclusive schools, since it is the field with the closer relationship between the objective of CEP and educational practice.

Keywords : Landscape; education; the european landscape convention (cep); the learning environment; nature of learning.

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