Environmental teaching of landscape through images in higher education

Ana Cano  Ortiz; Jehad  M. H. Ighbareyeh; Mauro  Raposo; Eusebio  Cano

Ana Cano Ortiz Department of Didactics of Experimental, Social and Mathematical Sciences. UCM. Madrid. Spain
Jehad M. H. Ighbareyeh Faculty of Sciences, University of Hebron, Hebron, Palestine
Mauro Raposo Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning, Institute for Mediterranean Agrarian and Environmental Sciences (ICAAM), School of Science and Technology, University of Évora (Portugal), Rua Romão Ramalho, nº 59, 7000-671 Évora
Eusebio Cano Departamento de Biología Animal y Vegetal y Sección de Ecología Botánica, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Universitario Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén. España.

Abstract

The objective of this study is the application of image and drawing in education through the landscape, which has allowed students to better understand the natural environment. It stimulates motivation and reflection. In this case, the student has worked with images of different landscapes, deserts, forests, scrublands, wetlands, burned areas and anthropized places. The study methodologically constitutes a practical laboratory work, with the previous application of 10 items before and after teaching to a group of 60 students. As a result we have obtained that the images have been correctly interpreted in the laboratory, concluding on the conservation of habitats, and that the analysis of the image and the use of drawing increase the student's capacity for understanding.