Environmental Education and Sustainability: Reflections in a Management Context

• Autor(a) principal: Petarnella, Leandro
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Silveira, Amélia, Machado, Nelson Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade - GeAS
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/geas/article/view/10028
• topic: Administration; Environmental education; Sustainability; Administración; Educación ambiental; Sostenibilidad; Administração; Educação Ambiental; Sustentabilidade.

This study aims to reflect and discuss on Environmental Education (EE) and Sustainability Education in Management, particularly stricto sensu Postgraduate Programmes. For this, it studies the history and the subject longevity in its transience, therefore it is a review article. This study was conducted through an exploratory approach, with a qualitative method of inductive reasoning, based on literature and document review for conceptual appropriation. Its relevance addresses two inter, multi and transdisciplinary issues, which reveal and complement each other in a broader social understanding. The reflections here discussed under the administration context, point to the challenge of the respective area. This should devise and disseminate scientific knowledge from and related to management that can operate under changes in the current social paradigm in which this science is linked to the others paradigm that is expected in the future: management contextualized and articulated with the sustainability paradigm. The study’s conclusion is that the challenge of incorporating sustainability into the teaching of stricto sensu Postgraduation in Management should be addressed through environmental education.