Educação e sustentabilidade: relações possíveis

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Marília Freitas de Campos Tozoni [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Talamoni, Jandira Líria Buscalquini [UNESP], Spazziani, Maria de Lourdes [UNESP], Ruiz, Sonia Silveira [UNESP], Nascimento Júnior, Antonio Fernandes [UNESP], Maia, Jorge Sobral da Silva [UNESP], Munhoz, Regina Helena [UNESP], Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo [UNESP], Souza, Daniele Cristina de [UNESP], Pinto, Eliane Aparecida Toledo [UNESP], Neves, Juliana Pereira [UNESP], Cruz, Lilian Giacomini [UNESP], Teixeira, Lucas André [UNESP], Agudo, Marcela de Moraes [UNESP], Festozo, Marina Battistetti [UNESP], Fossaluza, André Santachiara [UNESP], Janke, Nadja [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/OlharProfr.v.14i2.0006; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134622
• topic: Environmental education; Historical dialectical materialism; Sustainable development; Sustainability; Educação ambiental; Materialismo histórico dialético; Desenvolvimento sustentável; Sustentabilidade

Considering the defi nition of Environmental Education as a human development process that seeks the transformation of the relationship between society and environment, this paper – collectively written by the members of the research group – discusses the theoretical framework of our studies, understanding them not as ’straitjackets’ that force us to repeat and reproduce predetermined analysis, but as a pathway, a method to interpret reality, a method to look for the essence of the studied phenomena, the real world. The theoretical framework we present helps us, therefore, to overcome the fragmented feature of the construction of knowledge proposed by methodologies in whose epistemological axis are located empiricism, positivism and idealism, as well as to fi nd out the laws of the phenomena whose study concerns us. It also helps us to capture in detail the details of the problems, to analyze their evolution and track the connections between phenomena that surround them. That is the Historical, Dialectical and Materialistic method formulated by Marx and those who came after him, also known as the philosophy of praxis. Based on this reference, we discuss here the relationship between environmental education and sustainability, bringing the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability into the debate, concluding that for the critical perspective explained here, environmental education for sustainability is a process that joins theory and practice for the transformation of the relationships between societies and the environment. This is the critical dimension of environmental education as we comprehend it.