Training for sustainable development. A curricular proposal in the architecture career

Abstract

It is necessary to transform the development paradigm into one that leads along the path of sustainable development. The preparation of professionals must meet this requirement and strengthen comprehensive training. An interdisciplinary approach to economic, social and environmental aspects is then required. The curricular strategies respond to a conception of transversality of the curriculum and go beyond the contents of a subject. Cuban higher education recognizes the existence of several curricular strategies with these characteristics, but they do not operate in an integrated manner. At the proposal of the authors of this article, a "Curricular Training Strategy for Sustainable Development" was approved in the Architecture and Urbanism Career, which is integrated into the new curriculum. This article aims, from the understanding of this strategy, to demonstrate its application in the subject Environmental Conditioning I in the second year of the career. The following results are achieved: the study and preparation of the Strategy in the subject and career groups, the precision of the actions to be carried out in the subject and the partial control of the evaluation criteria. It is concluded in the possibility of the Strategy —in its application to a subject— to achieve an integrative and holistic approach of all the curricular strategies up to now considered and in the relevance of the Strategy in the systemic treatment of the  problems that affect to the human being.