Construction of Sustainable Thinking and Environmental Awareness with the contribution of Design Thinking

This study sought to investigate the contributions of a proposal for teaching Environmental Education in view of understanding the relationships between the environment, consumption, social and environmental complexity, based on the development of Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Thinking. For this purpose, the Active Design Thinking Methodology was used. The research has a qualitative, participatory nature and was developed with students in the 2nd year of high school. For data collection, the activities produced by the students were used and the data were analyzed in the light of content analysis and semiotic analysis of still images, in order to know the speeches, approximations and distances about the meanings attributed by them. The results showed signs of changes in the students' attitude towards the development Sustainable Thinking and Environmental Awareness.