TITLE:
Environmental Education in Brazil: Socio-Historical Perspectives in Formal Teaching for Sustainability
AUTHORS:
Francisco Arapiraca dos Santos, Elidinaldo da Silva Leite, Ricardo José Rocha Amorim, Dinani Gomes Amorim
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Education, Formal Education and Sustainability, Human Ecology
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
23,
2020
ABSTRACT: Environmental
Education has promoted to reflexive and intervening actions about productive
processes in society. This term is quite comprehensive and its epistemological
basis involves sustainability ideal achieving. So, in the search for new values
about respect for life as a whole, formal education has offered great
contributions. In this sense, the school is one of its biggest supporters.
Forming citizens requires postures that stimulate thought and not a mere
reproduction of content. The Brazilian policies foment and treat with
compulsory the practice of environmental education in all its ambits. In this
way, the objective of this work was to discuss such problems through a
qualitative approach with an emphasis on content analysis and documentary
research. As the main results, we believe that large international
corporations, governments, and other entities
must be more active and to suppress the practice of environmental
education is to accelerate the scarcity of natural resources.