Environmental education and technology, an answer from Judaism

Authors

  • Patricia Motola Pedroso Departamento de Estudios Cubanos, Universidad de las Artes (ISA)

Abstract

This article is aimed to motivate the reflection about three issues: envaironmental education, technology and Jewish education in Cuba. In the new scenario provoqued by the pandemic of Covid-19, it will very complex to analyze the ‘envaironmental education’. However, even in the current moment, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (KKL) has continued to create some spaces –like Learkiv 2021 project contest– where promoted this conception, now from the perspective of the sustenaible development. During the last months, education worldwide, should have to reinvent itself, This has been posible thanks to the usage of the information and communication technologies (TIC). Majón Albert Einstein, an educative project of the Cuban Jewish Community, has showed its resilience capacity and, in spite of the confinement, has mantained judaism alive. One of the activities, organized by him, and carried on via WhatsApp, was the celebration of the festivity of Tubishvat on January 2021. Kitá Pardés Alef, with its play “Sowing the hope” encouraged envaironmental awareness and the sustenaible home urban farming. In this way, Jewish education developed in the island, shows some examples of solving the new pedagogycal, technological and environmental challenges.

Keywords:

environmental education, information and communication technologies (TIC), Jewish education in Cuba, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (KKL), Majón Albert Einstein, kitá Pardés Alef.