Environmental pedagogical strategy on the consumption-pollution relationship in the face of the increase in births in adolescent mothers. Case study in an Educational Institution in the City of Cali. Estrategia pedagógica ambiental sobre la relación consumo-contaminación por causa del incremento de nacimientos en madres adolescentes. Estudio de caso en una Institución Educativa de la Ciudad de Cali.

Abstract

The objective of the research presented below was to determine, through a pedagogical strategy, the relationship between environmental problems and population growth generated by births to adolescent mothers. It was carried out with students from the 9th and 10th grades of Baccalaureate of the Manuel María Mallarino School in Santiago de Cali, under a qualitative descriptive research, case study type; with which it was possible to develop a transversal training between sexual and environmental education. For this study, specific actions were proposed such as a) Registration of adolescent pregnancies in the last 10 years at the national level, b) Bibliographic review of sources related to the study of accelerated population growth and the environmental implications of this phenomenon, c) Cross-sectional educational proposal between environmental education and sex education, which generated a perspective that was evaluated with a Likert scale survey, the level of understanding of the trafficking issues, the result of which shows that 93% of the participants manage to understand the relationship, cause and effect that is generated from births in adolescent mothers and the implications that this entails in the environment.