This article describes the results of a research carried out with students of pedagogy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and of the National Pedagogical University, of Mexico in order to identify the social representations they have about climate change; we used the interview, the survey with a semi-structured questionnaire and a questionnaire with Lickert-type scale and an associative letter. The obtained results the existence of social representations of the climate change; with similar characteristics between the students (female and male) and more favorable attitudes in the students (female). In general, the components of social representations dimensions are similar by gender and by university. In the representations, information on the effects of climate change and the recognition of the importance of environmental education predominate.

En este artículo se describen los resultados de una investigación desarrollada con estudiantes de pedagogía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de México con el objetivo de identificar las representaciones sociales que poseen sobre el cambio climático; se utilizó la entrevista, la encuesta con un cuestionario semiestructurado y un cuestionario con escala tipo Likert y una carta asociativa. En los resultados obtenidos se identifica la existencia de representaciones sociales del cambio climático; con características semejantes entre los estudiantes (femenino y masculino) y actitudes más favorables en las estudiantes (femenino). En general, los componentes de las dimensiones de las representaciones sociales son semejantes por género y por universidad. En las representaciones predominan la información sobre los efectos del cambi...

This article describes the results of a research carried out with students of pedagogy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and of the National Pedagogical University, of Mexico in order to identify the social representations they have about climate change; we used the interview, the survey with a semi-structured questionnaire and a questionnaire with Lickert-type scale and an associative letter. The obtained results the existence of social representations of the climate change; with similar characteristics between the students (female and male) and more favorable attitudes in the students (female). In general, the components of social representations dimensions are similar by gender and by university. In the representations, information on the effects of climate change and the recognition of the importance of environmental education predominate.