State of the art on critical environmental education at the Research Meeting on Environmental Education

Abstract

Critical environmental education [CEE] is presented as an important form of social intervention, since it helps in the promotion and understanding of socio-environmental problems in their multiple dimensions. Thus, in this article, the research on CEE, presented at the Research Meeting on Environmental Education [RMEE], in the time period between 2001 and 2019, was analyzed, taking into account its possibilities as a means of scientific communication, since it allows the debate about environmental education and its connections in the contemporary world. The methodology was based on a state-of-the-art research. 898 works were found in the archives of the RMEE. Forty-one papers with the term critical environmental education in their title were analyzed. For the analysis, descriptors and categories were created. Discursive textual analysis was adopted to interpret the data. In 2017 and 2015, there was the largest number of publications of works related to CEE. It is observed that CEE enables a new perspective on issues related to nature and society, as well as on emerging situations in the contemporary world, through the reflection on the quality of life and actions related to nature and society.

Critical Environmental Education in Latin America from a Socio-Environmental Perspective: Identity, Territory, and Social Innovation

“…The environmental and social problems faced by communities since the 1950s and 1960s have created platforms for reflection and critical awareness regarding the industrialization schemes established in Latin America. The contribution of CEE is to establish platforms for debates to develop essential social actors that promote and understand socio-environmental problems in their multiple dimensions [19], which connect nature and society through reflection and enable the praxis of socio-environmental transformation in the contemporary world.…”