Environmental education and pedagogical praxis: an analysis of the practices developed in public schools of Natal/RN

• Autor(a) principal: Gonzaga, Magnus José Barros
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/13501
• topic: Pedagogical Praxis; Environmental Education; Critical Perspective; Práxis pedagógica; Educação ambiental; Perspectiva crítica

This article aims to discuss pedagogical experiences in Environmental Education (EE) developed by teachers in public schools of Natal/RN. Under the light of the critical perspective, it is identified and analyzed the theoretic-methodological matrixes that underlies the experiences and, namely, if these experiences compose a pedagogical praxis indeed. As an expressive result of the researched experiences, we could verify that there is a prevalence of the conservative Environmental Education regarding the studied experiences, a theoretical approach characterized by the reductionism in the understanding of the environmental subject and, epistemologically, marked by its biologizingand ecologizingfocus, which does not refer to the economic, political, cultural and social discussions that surrounds the environmental question. This theoretical perspective ignores the interface of the environmental questions with the social dynamic, aside from subjugate the human action in social weave, a circumstance that denies, at the same time, the historical subject.