Environmental education and pedagogical praxis: an analysis of the practices developed in public schools of Natal/RN

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  • Magnus José Barros Gonzaga Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2236130813501

Keywords:

Pedagogical Praxis, Environmental Education, Critical Perspective

Abstract

This article aims to discuss pedagogical experiences in Environmental Education (EE) developed by teachers in public schools of Natal/RN. Under the light of the critical perspective, it is identified and analyzed the theoretic-methodological matrixes that underlies the experiences and, namely, if these experiences compose a pedagogical praxis indeed. As an expressive result of the researched experiences, we could verify that there is a prevalence of the conservative Environmental Education regarding the studied experiences, a theoretical approach characterized by the reductionism in the understanding of the environmental subject and, epistemologically, marked by its biologizingand ecologizingfocus, which does not refer to the economic, political, cultural and social discussions that surrounds the environmental question. This theoretical perspective ignores the interface of the environmental questions with the social dynamic, aside from subjugate the human action in social weave, a circumstance that denies, at the same time, the historical subject.

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Magnus José Barros Gonzaga, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN

Doutor em educação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN. Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela UFRN e professor do Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Tecnológicas e Humanas da Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido - UFERSA.

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Published

2014-08-31

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Gonzaga, M. J. B. (2014). Environmental education and pedagogical praxis: an analysis of the practices developed in public schools of Natal/RN. Monografias Ambientais, 13(3), 3392–3400. https://doi.org/10.5902/2236130813501

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REMOA, V. 13, N. 3, MAIO-AGO., 2014

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