Discutindo a educação ambiental a partir do diagnóstico em quatro ecossistemas no Brasil

Abstract

This article brings the main results of a study called

Philosophical-Critical Environmental Education: A Proposal in a Search for a Symmetry between Subject and Object

“…How to understand social-environmental problems without a proper understanding of the problems of human knowledge? In regard to EE in schools and universities, we believe that it can take place in the management, training and coexistence within and around these spaces and contexts, as can be seen in the experiences in many countries (Carvalho 2001(Carvalho , 2005Cavalcante and Miltão 2008a;Geli, Junyent and Sánchez 2003;Le Grange 2002).…”

“…Considering these assumptions, in an endless search for making the development of a social-environmental rationality possible, this paper comes across the prospect of the environmentalization of society, aiming at the achievement of a collective action that will mobilize the social subjects to embrace the social-environmental cause. As a result of our experience in EM at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Brazil (Cavalcante and Miltão 2008a, 2008b, 2008cMiltão 2011Miltão , 2012aMiltão , 2012b, in conjunction with other ones in EE of some countries that we studied (Carvalho 2001(Carvalho , 2005Daily et al 1997;DiLorenzo 1992;Fien 1988;Fien and Tilbury 1996;Geli et al 2003;Guevara et al n.d.;Le Grange 2002;Tirone and Nunes 2007;Whelan 2002), as well as from an important theoretical study on the EE, this paper intends to express our thinking towards the discussion of critical EE in a philosophical perspective. To reach our objective, we will in the first section establish the philosophical assumptions of social-environmental issue.…”