Educação ambiental : uma abordagem crítica e decolonial

Abstract

The theme of this text is Environmental Education (EE) in its critical and decolonial aspects. This proposition arises from an analysis of the school's Agenda 21, one of the EE projects worked on in the school network of the municipality of Canaã dos Carajás in the state of Pará, in which it was realized follows a pragmatic trend. With the critical education of our students in mind, and with the National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC) as our guiding document, one of whose competencies advocates socio-environmental awareness, responsible consumption and ethical positioning, we thought of a thematic as a didactic product, in order to contribute to the teaching practice of teachers linked to the municipal public network, with the aim of fostering environmental education in the critical macro-trend, in association with decolonial perspectives, in order to understand the environmental problems that afflict today's society. With a qualitative approach, this work is based on a narrative bibliographical review, using Google Scholar as a search platform to gather some articles that discuss the subject. The results of the research led to the creation of an educational product, a thematic text, entitled “Environmental Education: critical and decolonial aspects, which addresses fundamental topics that permeate environmental education, such as the history of Environmental Education, Environmental Education policies, National Curriculum Guidelines for Environmental Education, the environmental crisis, a critical approach to environmental issues, the (de)coloniality of nature and contemporary themes in Environmental Education. We believe that by helping to expand teachers' cognitive repertoire, we can reach the classroom and prepare students to problematize contemporary socioenvironmental challenges.