Los problemas del mundo rural y la formación del professorado

Citizen involvement in actions to move towards more just and sustainable societies, as the research has pointed out, requires a holistic vision that contributes to understanding the seriousness of the set of problems, closely related and mutually reinforcing, to which humanity has to face: resource depletion, pollution, climate change, ecosystem degradation, loss of biodiversity, increasing urbanization, poverty, inequalities, hyperconsumption, production model, related conflicts and so on. However, some of these serious problems such as demographic problem, the loss of cultural diversity or growing urbanization, among others, are repeatedly forgotten when the situation of serious socio-environmental crisis arises. In relation to the subject at hand and the need for a new rural culture to advance in sustainability, in the research we present we ask ourselves if the teachers in training are aware of the importance of the growing urbanization and the abandonment of the rural world, among other consequences and what interventions are required. First results show that in general the future Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary teachers who participated do not consider the problems of cities and their consequences among the serious problems that humanity has to face. This leads us to consider the need to deepen teacher training in dealing with these problems and to propose interventions within the framework of ESD and the SDGs.