A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NO BRASIL COMO DISCIPLINA AUTÔNOMA E OBRIGATÓRIA NOS CURRICULOS ESCOLARES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56256/themis.v20i2.971Abstract
The objective of this article is to make a critical analysis of the way that environmental education has been proposed in the various recommendations resulting from international conferences held by organizations linked to the United Nations (UN) since the beginning of the 70s, as well as to suggest that it be implemented from the initial grades to higher education, as an autonomous and mandatory discipline, but not fragmented. The foundation for such a proposal is due to the fact that environmental education is always mentioned as an education that must be inserted in the school curricula in an interdisciplinary and/or transversal way. In addition, the article brings up the viability of environmental education having as its premise the insertion of ecological literacy in the National Curricular Plans (PCNs), in a perspective of Earth Pedagogy or Eco Pedagogy (GADOTTI, 2001), acting as a pedagogical move that address the theme 'environment education' based on a curriculum review where the educational process adopts the commitment to provide a new worldview so that environmental education goes beyond the walls of the school, assuming the role of a social and political movement that makes it possible to take of the individual's awareness of human dysfunctionality driven by exacerbated consumption causing ecological imbalance, and the inability of the Planet's natural resources to regenerate in the same proportion as environmental degradation. From the reflection based on the historical path of the mention of environmental education in international documents, in the use of the explanatory / qualitative methodology and the literature review, this work has the scope of proposing environmental education within a new perspective, where it can abandon the outdated and restrictive view of international recommendations and the reception by the Brazilian legislator who has been insistently defending them from an interdisciplinary and/or transversal perspective, and which often, in their eagerness to comply with such recommendations, end up promoting even possible conflicts of norms in the Brazilian legal system.
Keywords: Environmental education; interdisciplinarity; autonomous discipline; school curricula, Brazilian legal system.