Searching for Guidelines for "Ecological Thought" Development

The present work is concerned with eliciting objectives for a project aimed at the development of "ecological thought". For our purposes, we start from interactions among ecological studies teaching what we have called "ecological thought" and initiation procedures for ecological method learning and understanding, so as to infer positive popula- tion behaviour patterns, the interacting system being a university student population and the environment. In order to define the main elements within the system, we have studied 33 variables belonging to social, cultural, psychological and scientific components. The employed methodology combines the scientific method—which is used in the investigation of a particular ecological problem—and the ecological method, which we apply to educational dynamics for envi- ronmental awareness and learning processes. We have practiced tutor-ial follow-up, and learning process backing by reference to the valúes held most highly among university students.