A educação ambiental frente à destruição da natureza: possibilidades e limites para transpor a crise ambiental

Abstract

This study addresses how environmental education may or may not contribute to engaging or understanding the relationship between society and nature, highlighting the catastrophic consequences of human actions, such as the greenhouse effect, climate change, global warming, deforestation, and pollution. Environmental education is presented as an essential tool for tackling these crises by promoting necessary social changes. Thus, the objective was to discuss how environmental education is integrated into the context of Dourados-MS, with the State School Menodora Fialho de Figueiredo as the field of study. The central hypothesis is that, although present in the school community, environmental education does not satisfactorily engage in the fight against environmental crises because it does not address the root of the problem: the capitalist production system. Furthermore, it also explores how sociology and the human sciences deal with these issues. The dissertation is structured into three chapters: the first addresses the socio-historical context of the environmental crisis, the second analyzes the structuring of environmental education in Brazil, and the third examines the practice of environmental education in everyday school life. Finally, the findings corroborate the hypothesis, indicating that environmental education is, at the very least, a contradictory tool for transpose the environmental crisis.