Educação ambiental e atuação das ONGs: uma análise das ações da ECOA em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

In this work, we start from the understanding that the debate on environmental education is part of a broader field of issues surrounding the concepts of nature and environmental regulations, as well as the sense of environmental crisis and its relation to the knowledge paradigms. From this understanding, we discuss the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in development of environmental education with a focus on NGO Ecology and Action (ECOA) and its actions in Mato Grosso do Sul. Based on archival work and conducting interviews with members and founders of the ECOA tried to analyze the objectives, main features and issues surrounding the actions taken by the ECOA with respect to Environmental Education. In this sense, identify, among the projects developed by the ECOA, the Child of Waters Project that seeks, through Environmental Education critical thinking and tools to provide better working conditions for the riparian communities served and thus offer a better quality of life for these families. Based on the analysis of the actions developed by the ECOA and, especially, in the Project Child Waters, we understand that this NGO performs work that Environmental Education is not limited to behavioral and individual actions. Environmental perspective is the basis of their actions to the extent that their environmental education projects assume that man is not external to nature, but they interact and form a single medium. Therefore, a vision of social, environmental and environmental education that sees the environment as a whole issue, not separating it and fragmenting it.