%0 Journal Article %T CONOCIMIENTOS Y VALORES AMBIENTALES QUE CARACTERIZAN LA PR芍CTICA EDUCATIVA DE LOS DOCENTES DE LA ESCUELA T谷CNICA POLICIAL (PM) COMISARIO %A 谷lita Rosales L車pez %A Margarita Garc赤a Tovar %J CONHISREMI %D 2011 %I Instituto Universitario de Tecnolog赤a Tom芍s Lander %X In the Police Technical School (PM) Commissioner "Eduardo Meza Ist迆riz" located in the parish Macarao of Caracas, large participation by the teachers was not appreciated in the development and inclusion of environmental issues and values in their educational practice. Therefore, this research was directed towards the study of environmental knowledge and values that characterized the performance of the teaching community of this institution, defined by the significance given to their educational experiences as members of the institution, which was expressed by oral arguments, corroborated by their participation in events. The study was based on the phenomenological paradigm and involved 07 teachers. The information was obtained through unstructured interviews and observations recorded in a notebook. The information processing was done following the guidelines of Martinez (2009) that includes these steps: observation, interviews and protocol description, structuring, and definition of thematic focus, discussion of results and conclusions, for phenomenological studies. The most relevant findings of the study characterized the group as teachers with a high degree of affection favorable to the environment and values in general; they are aware of their importance to the quality of life in the institution; they also have an anthropocentric view of environment and few of them include environmental issues in their classes. It was concluded that they wish to participate in environmental training and to master teaching strategies En la Escuela T谷cnica Policial (PM) Comisario %u201CEduardo Meza Ist迆riz%u201D ubicada en la Parroquia Macarao de Caracas, no se apreciaba gran participaci車n por parte de los docentes en el desarrollo e inclusi車n de valores y temas ambientales en su praxis docente. Por ello, esta investigaci車n se orient車 hacia el estudio de los conocimientos y los valores ambientales que caracterizaban el desempe o de la comunidad docente de dicha instituci車n, definida por el significado que le otorgaban a sus experiencias educativas como miembros de la instituci車n, el cual fue manifestado mediante exposiciones orales, corroboradas en sus participaciones en eventos. El estudio se sustent車 en el paradigma fenomenol車gico y en 谷l participaron siete profesores. La informaci車n se obtuvo mediante entrevistas no estructuradas y observaciones registradas en un cuaderno de notas. El procesamiento de la informaci車n se realiz車 siguiendo las orientaciones de Mart赤nez (2009), que contempla las etapas de: observaci車n, entrevista y descripci車n protocolar, estructuraci車n %K affection towards the environment %K environmental values %K environmental concept and educational practice %K afectividad hacia el ambiente %K valores ambientales %K concepci車n de ambiente y pr芍ctica educativa %U http://conhisremi.iuttol.edu.ve/pdf/ARTI000127.pdf