Educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável: o papel da Universidade

• Autor(a) principal: Piato, Ronise Straiotto
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Alves Rezende, Maria Isabel Rosifini, Lehfeld, Lucas de Souza, Fajardo, Renato Salviato [UNESP], Alves Rezende, Maria Cristina Rosifini [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.archhealthinvestigation.com.br/index.php/ArcHI/article/view/87; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133230
• topic: Universities; Education, higher; Education, environmental; Universidades; Educación superior; Educación ambiental; Universidades; Educação superior; Educação ambiental

The University is responsible for the stablishment of citizens with critical thinking, based on current concepts, capable of a dynamic and participative attitude in the community in which these professinals will be inserted. Education at environmental sustainability, permeated by the articulation among knowledge, social, and cultural phenomena, brings the challenge of incorporating skills, providing essential values not only for understanding the historical relations between human beings and the environment, but also to improving the quality of life. The “World Conference on Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action" guides the educational process by its mission to train citizens professionals, highly informed, motivated, integrated and able to create a society based on love of humanity and wisdom. The balancing among the basic functions of teaching, research and extension within the University contributes to the student to take ownership of the construction of his own knowledge in a perspective of integral formation of the human being, aware of his social responsibility and policy for a society environmentally sound. This paper aims to, guided by literature review, present some considerations on the role of the University in education for environmental sustainability.