Environmental Education and Non-formal Education: interactions and potential

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Fernanda da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Marcia, Rocha, Marcelo Borges
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa em Educação Ambiental (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/pesquisa/article/view/16073

Environmental Education (EA) is characterized as an integrating process between the individual and society that aims on structuring an environmental awareness through the knowledge, skills, experiences, values construction that can act in favor of solving socio-environmental problems and toward nature preservation. Non-formal Education (NFE), on other hand, is based on educational processes developed in non-school spaces and environments that engage in experience creation and sharing associated with visitors experienced situations in these spaces and related to visitation and mediation programs, pedagogical activities, and collective actions driven to scientific knowledge dissemination. Therefore, this article consists in a theoretical essay aimed to outline considerations regarding the relationship between EE and NFE, highlighting its potential for the elaboration of environmental preservation actions intertwined with educational processes. We sought to bring main conceptions about EE and NFE establishing dialogues between the main area authors and relevant official documents to carry out a scenario analysis and contextualization linked to the EE practices and actions in NFE spaces as instruments for the human-nature relationship re-signification that provoke reflections about participations and decisions in the face of contemporary socio-environmental problems.