Estilos de pensamento sobre biodiversidade em pesquisas de educação ambiental Publicadas no EPEA

Abstract

The objective of this investigation was to analyze the epistemological contributions of Fleck and the theory of social representations in the context of the Environmental Heritage Education published in EPEA about biodiversity. The research was guided by the following question: What styles of thought about biodiversity articles circulating on the Meeting of Research in Education Environmentally EPEA and how they are linked to the Environmental Heritage Education? The research object is the theme biodiversity; the locus of research are 11 approved articles in the six meetings of Research in Education Environmentally EPEA performed in the years 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 Data analysis strategies are some of the content analysis proposed by Bardin involving the organization of the analysis, coding, categorization and inference. According to Fleck's epistemology results enabled the identification of eleven styles of thought circled in twenty-eight articles on biodiversity published in EPEA, namely: Environmental Equity; Utilitarian; Systemic; Naturalist / ecological / biological; Humanist; Environmental Criticism; Cultural; Conservationist; Scientific; Resolutivo; Sustainable. A collective of 28 researchers who presented papers on biodiversity in the approach of EPEA Environmental Heritage Education has been identified as one of the styles of thought on the topic biodiversity. The continuing education of the authors who had their articles are approved EPEA level of specialization, masters and doctoral degrees. The survey results indicate that some styles circulating in the collective esoteric and exoteric thoughts. The identified representations are noted for traditional ideas agreed by ecologists naturalistic, utilitarian and decisive nature of biodiversity. In this sense, I highlight the need to broaden the discussion of biodiversity research for a context involving economic, social and political issues. Already the most critical styles appeared outnumbered and intermediate styles, ie, are not traditional nor critics also had fewer occurrences. In this context it is necessary that the styles of thinking about biodiversity author of EPEA break with the already established traditional ideas and evolve into the most critical styles.