Educação ambiental no contexto escolar e um pequeno resgate histórico

Abstract

The environmental issue must be addressed globally, considering that environmental degradation is the result of a social process, determined by the way society appropriates and uses natural resources. It is impossible to try to solve environmental problems in isolation. It is necessary to introduce a new approach arising from the understanding that the existence of a certain environmental quality is directly conditioned to the quality of life process. When it comes to the term Education and Environment, the problem of bad behaviors of aggression against nature arises. It is known that education wants to transform reality, but reality is understood as the sum of individual behaviors, because if education really wants to transform reality, it is not enough to invest in changing behaviors without investing in the conditions of the world in which people inhabit. Thus, it is possible to redefine the educational practice as one that, together with other social practices, is involved in historical making, and a producer of knowledge and politics where human action is exercised.