The integration of environmental education into the curriculum as a way of achieving environmental coming of age.

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https://doi.org/10.47401/revisea.v13.23393

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Environmental education, Environmental duties, Environmental rights, coming of age, Kant

Abstract

This paper, conducted within the framework of the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, is divided into two complementary parts, focusing on the conceptualization of the goals of environmental education and the proposal of a pathway to achieve them.

The first part develops the idea that contemporary society, due to a lack of critical, ethical, and political thinking, remains in a state of “minority” with respect to the environment—an immaturity that could lead to a systemic environmental crisis. The second part presents a pathway to develop criteria for formulating environmental learning rights and duties, fostering ethical, ecological, political, and economic decision-making (environmental coming of age) among students in cycle 4 of a public school in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Luis Fernando Sua Romero, Doctorado en Educación DIE UD

Luis Fernando Sua Romero holds a degree in Physics from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, a specialization in Education Management and Social Projection from Universidad Libre, and a Master's in Physics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education (DIE-UD), with a focus on science education. His research line emphasizes the inclusion of the environmental dimension in science teaching, through the doctoral project titled “Basic environmental learning rights and duties in science education: a critical teaching proposal for school cycles 4 and 5.”

He works as a physics and environmental education teacher at the Bogotá Department of Education, and has taught in public, private, and university-level institutions. He completed a doctoral research stay at the Laboratory of Languages and Mediations at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), supported by the MOVE LA AMÉRICA scholarship program (CAPES). His academic interests include physics, education, sustainability, and the environment.

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2025-09-30

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Sua Romero, L. F. (2025). The integration of environmental education into the curriculum as a way of achieving environmental coming of age. Revista Sergipana De Educação Ambiental, 12(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.47401/revisea.v13.23393

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