Educação ambiental: macrotendências em atividades educativas no Parque Zoobotânico do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) arises from an understanding of the historical social construction of the planet, where it is necessary to change the paradigm that implies both a scientific and political revolution. This study aims to know and understand the political-pedagogical macrotrends in EE present in the practices developed at Zoobotanical Park of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG). We assume qualitative research, with Content Analysis. The procedures were organized in two moments: 1. Visit to the MPEG Zoobotanical Park and analysis of the documentation object of the study; 2. Interviews with the coordinators responsible for EA's projects and activities. The following categories were established for analysis: vision of the environment, conceptions of environmental problems, political vision and practice/approach. From the analysis, we realized that the political-pedagogical macrotrends of EE present in the pedagogical practices in the Zoobotanical Park of MPEG, appeared concomitantly, that is, in a mixed way, without a consensus of intentionality or theoretical reference. However, a certain dominance was observed for conservationist and pragmatic macrotrends.