The interdisciplinary work in Environmental Education reflection on the teaching practice

Abstract

This article is a reflection on environmental education from a critical perspective, which emphasizes the interdisciplinary work in the process. This is part of the teaching work of the author. This paper evaluates the dichotomy between society and nature in the perception of teachers, which leads to compartmentalized practices in the field of environmental education.  Methodologies used are usually deficient as far as they cannot overcome the denunciation of the socio-environmental conflict and put it in context in a diverse and complex society such as in Brazil. Consequently, in this context, the environmental education is seen as a repetitive practice sometimes embedded in anthropocentric values. The complex thought suggests certain education directed to changing the simplistic ways of thinking.