%0 Journal Article %T Educaci¨®n Ambiental e Intercultural para la sostenibilidad: fundamentos y praxis %A Vega %A Pedro %A Freitas %A M¨˘rio %A ¨˘lvarez %A Pedro %A Fleuri %A Reinaldo %J Utop¨¬a y Praxis Latinoamericana %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in the face of the current degradation of the environment, the challenge is for individuals and institutions to act in a sustainable way. we urgently need to acquire ecological knowledge and behaviour that will allow us to develop without growing beyond our limits; therefore, an effective relationship between sustainability and education is one of the most urgent and necessary challenges. conscious of this, we present an educational proposal- environmental and intercultural education for sustainable development - that introduces sustainable management in the curriculum and lets us cover the distance between theory and practice, preparing students to make decisions adapted to sustainability. %K sustainable development %K environmental and intercultural education %K methodological strategy %K foundations. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-52162009000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en