Una mirada a la labor docente desde el paradigma de la ecocrítica y del ecofeminismo

This work aims to describe the perception of secondary education teachers and under-graduate students about the environmental problem and its relationship with gender issues. For this, we applied surveys to two groups: Spanish Language and Communications teachers at Los Lagos region (Chile) and undergraduate students throughout Chile from the perspective of ecocriticism and ecofeminism. As a result, in both cases, a significant gap between the idealized perception of the natural world and the real experience was found. The case of teachers is especially significant because they point out the differences between initial teacher training and the reality of daily teaching work. Both groups highlight the lack of a clear and articulated connection between environmental and gender issues.