The theme of climate change in brazilian thesis and dissertations on environmental education

• Autor(a) principal: Reis Leite, Danielle Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Silva, Luciano Fernandes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Actio (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/actio/article/view/12132
• topic: Educação; Mudanças Climáticas; Educação Ambiental; Controvérsia.; Climate changes; Environmental education; Controversy

This paper presents some results related to a research with thesis and dissertations in the field of Environmental Education (EE). The aim of research was to identify aspects of the climate change theme highlighted in these studies. To delimit the documentary corpus, two EE doctoral thesis and 45 master's degree dissertations defended in the period from 1987 to 2010 were selected. All of them were found in the CAPES Thesis and Dissertations Database. The documentary corpus was formed with seventeen EE master's degree dissertations that explore the climate change. Based on some criteria, five surveys were submitted to content analysis. From the considerations on the theme of climate change present in these surveys, three categories were elaborated. These categories show us some understandings of the authors of these studies on the phenomenon causes, its consequences and the possible measures capable of mitigating its effects. Two master's degree dissertations bring considerations that use the term complexity to justify difficulties in choosing a single natural or anthropic cause related to the origins of climate change. They also highlight the scientific controversies related to climate change. Three master's degree dissertations present sensationalist positions in highlighting the climate change consequences, an aspect that is problematized by two other studies when emphasizing that the uncertainties related to a complex phenomenon make it difficult to present such forecasts. Finally, it is important to point some arguments presented in one specific master's degree dissertation that presented some considerations about mitigation measures for the phenomenon. They presented arguments related to economic and political controversies and that result from the debate about the adoption of such measures. In terms of conclusion, it is important to note that these researchers present some relevant information on the topic, an aspect that certainly can encourage the research area in EE to deepen the reflections on climate changes and to propose new research problems.