ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR ECO-DEVELOPMENT

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcanti dos Santos, Florisvaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Malta de Azevedo, Sérgio Luiz, Pereira de Almeida, Maria do Socorro, Freire Barbosa, Anna Christina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ouricuri (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.uneb.br/index.php/ouricuri/article/view/16761
• topic: Desenvolvimento sustentável; Educação para economia justa; Desenvolvimento e crescimento econômico; Sustainable Development; Education for fair economy; Development and economic growth; Desenvolvimiento sustentable; Educación para una economía justa; Desarrollo económico y crecimiento

 This study is about the negative effects caused by the exaggerated economical growth and how education can be used as an agent to minimize the damages caused to the natural environment. In this study, environmental education is considered as a pillar which will become into a new awareness to people in terms of reducing the anxiety for the exaggerated consumerism under an economical perspective. In this way, a literature review research on the subject was carried out in bibliographic collections, using Google Scholar and Scielo, in a timeless way. Therefore, the work is characterized as qualitative and, as a method of approach, the phenomenological-hermeneutic method was used. Regarding the achieved results, there is a common sense among the authors say in the environmental education is promising to changes in relation to the human and to the nature, once it contributes to collective awareness for a new vision on companies, such as  public and private participation to take care of the biodiversity and this way provide ah harmonious environment among the parts. Therefore, environmental education is considered as essential as a way to minimize anthropocentric actions that can be harmful to the environment and, as well as to motivate preservation actions by the society to achieve balance, harmony and an ecologically sustainable life to the future generations.