Cultura e meio ambiente: as ações socioeducativas do Instituto Arraial do Pavulagem

Abstract

This work tells, describes and discusses the socioeducational and environmental actions of Instituto Arraial do Pavulagem in Belém and in other municipalities in the state of Pará through cultural practices such as Cordão do Peixe Boi, Arrastões da quadra Junina, Cordão da Cobra-grande and an action of the Orube Project of Art and Education, a axtension project of the Institute based in the residential area of Satélite in a municipal school in Ourém. Firstly, grounded on the qualitative research method and on theoretical methodological principles of Environmental Education as political education, this work describes the actions mentioned above as well as its results and how they relate to theoretical and methodological principles of Environmental Education in the hope that it will foster care for the environment and bring about change in the way individuals go about such actions. Secondly, this work gives an account of the development process of Cordão do Peixe Boi and Cordão do Gallo actions in Belém and Cachoeira do Arari respectively. Thirdly, it identifies its main actors, their perception and their relation to the practices and the environmental scope of their actions by relating it to the local culture, namely, the use of recyclable materials in production of floats and percussion instruments. Finally, it describes the its main results and their impact to and the thinking changes of the main actors in the community in an attempt to show in a wider picture the actions of the Institute, whose aim is to promote environmental education through cultural practices in the Amazon.