Ecodidactics: an ecological education perspective

Within an epistemological and didactic framework inspired by ecological perspectives in the Batesonian sense, the work proposes to advance an innovative framework of understanding and educational design of the connection between environmental education and the ecological perspective through the configuration of the ecodidactic perspective. Through a discussion of an analytical methodological approach, the essay identifies and defines the peculiar aspects that make up the ecodidactic proposal: it is understood as an activist, democratic, eco-feminist education that fosters the development of empathy in a biophilic sense, aimed at fostering the development of ecological intelligence through ecoliteracy paths that aim to promote biospheric egalitarianism. The intent of the work is to pave a way, to indicate a direction for a possible fruitful cross-fertilisation between ecology and didactics by outlining a guiding framework within which educational professionals can organically and consciously inscribe their activities.