Revista MENDIVE (Jan 2023)
The process of professional improvement in environmental education of primary teachers in Ghana
Abstract
The interest in raising the quality of educational systems raises the urgency and need to overcome teachers and professionals in this sector. At present it becomes more urgent in the area of Environmental Education, since initial training in an emergent way causes insufficiencies and shortcomings of a theoretical and methodological order associated with other organizational, economic and social problems that lacerate the quality of the environment as a whole. teaching-learning process. In particular, in Ghana, the analysis of this problem is focused, which contrasts with the situation of the education sector, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to characterize the process of professional development in environmental education of primary teachers in Ghana. Methods such as historical-logical, documentary analysis and procedures of analysis and synthesis, and induction and deduction were used. As a result of the study, the main features of the process studied in the current evolution of the educational system of that country were determined, and inherent and transcendent aspects for its transformation were distinguished.
