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15. Democracy and Environmental Education: A Necessary Symbiosis in Mexico: Some Lessons from Ecuador

Authors : Alejandra Chávez, Angélica Prado

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The present chapter addresses the aim to develop an egalitarian relationship between the environment and individuals. In this sense, there is a need for environmental education as an instrument that consolidates the democratic context from an equitable vision of coexistence, recognizing the rights of all living beings. In Mexico, the proposal in the six-year term of López Obrador for the New Mexican School intends to offer a comprehensive education in all areas of knowledge, based on eight principles, two of which are explored in this study: citizens’ responsibility and respect for nature, and care for the environment. Could it be that this paradigm proposal reaches what was proposed in Ecuador, where nature is constitutionally placed as a subject of rights? Contrasting the proposals of these countries will lead us to show the degree to which environmental education is acting as a democratizing process.

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Title: Democracy and Environmental Education: A Necessary Symbiosis in Mexico: Some Lessons from Ecuador
Authors: Alejandra Chávez
Angélica Prado
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Book: Transition to a Safe Anthropocene in the Asia-Pacific
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-66520-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-66521-9

Copyright Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66521-9_15

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