Educação ambiental em espaços escolares: estudo das teses brasileiras no período de 2009 a 2018

Abstract

This research is related to the line of research Theories of Education and Pedagogical Processes of the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO). The general objective is to describe and analyze the theme Environmental Education (AE) in school spaces in the theses published in Postgraduate Programs in the period from 2009 to 2018. The specific objectives aim to: 1) analyze the documents guiding the actions of the AE coming from the international and national conferences; 2) to identify the theoretical foundations that deal with EE in school spaces and the concepts of EE, environment and sustainable development that underpinned the work; 3) describe the specificities of the theses that make up this study (object of investigation, thematic focuses and bibliographic sources). The guiding problem of this investigation was defined as follows: how is the EA theme characterized in school spaces in the theses published in Graduate Programs in the period from 2009 to 2018? For this, we opted for the State of Knowledge type research. The main authors were: Loureiro (2004), Reigota (2001), Leff (2010), Dias (2004), Carvalho (2008) and others. The corpus, composed of 11 (eleven) theses, was selected in the database of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). As a result, the research showed that, in the 11 (eleven) theses that make up the research corpus, most of them defend critical AE and point out that AE in schools still needs to be better understood, and should be a subsidy for reflection not only on discussion about the environment (society-nature relationship, devastation, etc.), but, above all, a broader discussion that requires thinking about society, the basis that supports it, the purposes that underpin it (exposing false speeches, false promises, false agreements, for example). Only then will EA achieve its objective, which is critical and emancipatory training