Collective of researchers in Higher Environmental Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

EArte Argentina

The EArte-Ar is composed of 14 to 18 members, including researchers, doctoral fellows, doctoral students, and undergraduate fellows, belonging to various universities in the country: Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham (where the project is hosted), Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (with researchers from INDES - CONICET-UNSE-), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Villa María (with at least one researcher from UNVM-CONICET), Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (with a researcher from IIMyC, CONICET-UNMDP), Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Universidad de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, and Universidad Nacional de Salta. Up to now, EArte-Ar has been funded through three projects: (i) Environmental education in the agenda of Argentine universities. Analysis of postgraduate theses: theoretical-methodological currents and trends, with emphasis on the northwest region of Argentina (PI-UNSE 2020-2021). (ii) Environmental Education (EA) in the agenda of Argentine universities. Topics and theoretical-methodological trends in postgraduate theses, with an emphasis on the AMBA region. (PI-UNAHUR 2021-2023) and (iii) Environmental Education (EA) in the agenda of researchers from Argentine universities as input for the design and implementation of public policies. Topics and theoretical-methodological trends in master's and doctoral theses (PI-UNAHUR 2023-2025).

EArte Brazil

Currently, EArte Brazil has 39 members from 8 universities: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade de Campinas, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Universidade de São Paulo, and Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. The project received funding from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq (2010–2012 and 2012-2016), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP (2020-2022) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais - FAPEMIG (2023-2026). Brazil is a reference country in this field, with an initiative dating back to 2006. However, it was in 2008 that the project took the name of Proyecto EArte. The sustained work resulted in the systematization of a database of Master's and Doctoral theses in Environmental Education with 6,142 research works developed in various postgraduate programs across the country from 1981 to 2020.

EArte Mexico

Within the framework of EArte ALyC, Mexico has been developing its project based on: (i) the master's and doctoral theses located at UNAM and (ii) a survey driven by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM). In the case of UNAM, there is a team composed of 6 researchers from that University, organized according to thesis presentation periods: i) 1996 and previous years, ii) 1997-2003; iii) 2004-2007; iv) 2008-2011; v) 2012-2019. On the other hand, in the case of UAEM, the process of identifying the universe of theses is ongoing, including material from other higher education institutions, particularly the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (UAGRO) and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP). For now, UAEM does not have funding, being linked to EArte since 2019.

EArte Cuba

The project involves 6 researchers from CEEA-GEA, 4 collaborators, and 10 doctoral students, who are conducting research in the field of environmental and energy education. The background of CEEA-GEA was the "GEA" Project (Management for Environmental Education) which began to be implemented in 1995 at the Enrique José Varona Higher Pedagogical Institute (now UCPEJV) and Ciudad Escolar Libertad, aimed at the permanent environmental training of education professionals. CEEA-GEA, as part of the completed research projects, totaling five with more than 20 results on environmental and energy education, has incorporated among its actions the revelation of the state of the art in this field, based on doctoral theses in Pedagogical and Educational Sciences in Cuba. An initial study revealed the results from 1980 to 2012, where the intention was to disseminate the knowledge that has been progressively generated in recent years in the field of research on this topic; and to guide the educational and pedagogical aspects present in the defended theses, which has continued to date, with the aim of revealing the main contributions of doctoral theses to environmental and energy education.

EArte Chile

Chile has been developing its chapter from the Universidad de los Lagos. Currently, a research project (so far without funding) is being carried out, aimed at analyzing the influence of Latin American Environmental Thought (PAL) on postgraduate research in that country. The project proposes: (i) to compile master's and doctoral theses in Environmental Education from the EArte ALyC database that have digital access to the full text in the period 2010-2020; (ii) to perform a bibliometric analysis with citations to PAL authors, using a quantitative methodology from social network analysis (SNA).

EArte Colombia

Achieved from the Universidad del Tolima, a research project approved in 2017, called State of the Art of Research in Environmental Education in Master's and Doctoral Theses from Universities in Ibagué and Manizales, with the participation of 6 researchers and a national advisor from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. On the other hand, the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas has been working with 2 approved projects and one in design, associated with EArte Colombia. The approved projects are titled: 1) Analysis of research paradigms in Environmental Education research at three public universities in Colombia. (2010-2020). This project involves 3 researchers and 2) Analysis of Social Representations of the Environment (RSA) in Environmental Education research at three universities in Colombia (2015-2018), involving two researchers. Finally, in the project in the design process, 3 researchers are involved.