Diagnosis on the practice of Environmental Education in Conservation Units in the State of Paraná (Brazil)

Abstract

Today's society has changed on a large scale due to technological and industrial development, and, increasingly, socio-environmental conflicts experienced. Environmental Education (EE) emerged in the 60's aiming to articulate these socio-environmental challenges and explaining possible changes in human actions to maintain the environment in which we operate. The objective of this job was to do a literature review and diagnose how Environmental Education is practiced in Conservation Units (CU) in the state of Paraná. Furthermore, if this practice is associated with conservative or emancipatory criticism, it is expected with the weaving of this theoretical study contributes to the literature on Environmental Education. Moreover, differentiate the Conservative and Critical aspects. For this research, scientific articles search sites and Boolean research were used. Only works carried out in CU that used conservative EE were verified. Thus, it was found that the objective of the works was limited only to lead the public (visitors) to a reflection on the environment, characterizing actions different from the assumptions of critical EE, that is, punctual, reductionist, fragmented and unilateral of the environmental issue.