Although the importance of knowledge management, little is known concerning the creation process of new knowledge. This process can be applied into several contexts in order to create new knowledge and use it better; one is environmental education (EE), which regards the increasing environmental degradation. This paper analyses the knowledge creation (KC) process in EE programmes conducted by two of the largest and most prestigious universities in Brazil. This research is qualitative with a descriptive characteristic and was conducted through case studies. The data collection and analysis methods were qualitative, including interviews and content analysis. The main contribution of this paper concerns suggestions to improve the environmental programmes at universities, providing green practices around the campuses with more e±cient and systematic knowledge production and dissemination related to the topic. Additionally, some evidences of the case studied motivated the authors to ask some questions about the KC theory of Nonaka.In the same way, there is a structure that facilitates the creation and transmission of knowledge. This structure is a hypertext structure, a non-hierarchical but self-organised structure that works in parallel with the formal hierarchical one, which is formed in levels through which its members can change the context (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995).According to the KCT, all these factors are essential to innovate; they can stimulate or impede the creation of new knowledge.
Linking KC and EE