ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: CRITICISM ABOUT THE TRANSVERSALITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9732132220102

• Palavras-chave: Environmental Education, transversality, Sustainability

• Keywords: Environmental Education, transversality, Sustainability

• Abstract:

  Thinking about meeting the needs of the present without compromising environmental resources for future generations is the praxis (action-reflection-action) of dealing with the environment. If the act of teaching brings learning as a consequence, most probably the Environmental Education, if inserted in the educational levels, would bring about changes in fact, in the way of life and socially aware the learners. If we do not see certain changes today, we conclude that in some way the educational practice of environmental awareness is not functional. It requires a deeper analysis on the means and paths for an effectively qualitative environmental education. Thinking about the environment today means thinking in a prospective and complex way, introducing new variables into the ways of conceiving the globalized world, nature, society, knowledge and mainly the modalities of social relations, in order to act in a solidarity and fraternal way, the search for a new model of development.