A transversalidade da Educação Ambiental na prática

Abstract

One of the most important freedoms is that of participation and social control in government action, which can be an instrument in the proposal of a new paradigm in environmental education to improve the effectiveness of public programs and projects in this area. This depends on the formation of a cultured
and ecological citizen, through the change of attitudes, derived from the environmental education of children in schools and citizens through campaigns to encourage reading and ecological awareness of adults. Formal and informal Environmental Education must become a process that sows the fermentation of the formation of a new culture, through a new form of thinking. Offering a new perspective for existing literature, and based on the approach to development as freedom, this article presents a theoretical-practical model of environmental education based on Communities of Practice, which can be applied, with
contributions of future research, in an environmental education policy in Brazil. This model demonstrates that access to knowledge and experience leads to the character formation of an ecological citizen and then to social control and social participation. The study concludes that the pilot project, with the insertion of the discipline of environmental education in the schools of Mariana and Brumadinho, where the two mud tsunamis occurred, and the awareness campaigns of the population enhance participation and social quality control and have the potential to create a new paradigm in environmental education.