The 2030 Challenges Group at UACJ: sense of ownership, health and environmental education of the students

Abstract

The sense of ownership and health of young students has been compromised, as well as their perception of the current situation in the context of the so-called crisis of civilization. The 2030 Challenges Group was conceived during a dialogic writing course for teachers in 2016, at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (uacj), Chihuahua, Mexico, as a contribution to face the pressing ecological, health and education challenges to which faces the university community. The methodology consists of sending a weekly reading for discussion; then the written contributions by the students to the group as a whole and, finally, the feedback from the teachers to each student regarding the improvement of their grammatical structure and writing. The group, mainly students, currently integrates a community of 631 people. Until 2020, a weekly reading had been sent, for a total of 100, in which on average 30 students write per semester who receive feedback, giving a total of 3,000 reviews. In October 2020, the First 2030 Challenges Group Forum was held through the teams platform with presentations by the students.