Environmental Education and quilombola culture: between the absence of public policies and resistance practices

Abstract

The study analyzed the relationship between environmental education and quilombola culture, materialized in knowledge, environmental and cultural practices in the Quilombola community of Bailique Centro (Oieiras do Pará, Brazil). For this, a bibliographic and field research was carried out, which according to the problem is qualitative, whose data collection was through semi-structured interviews for socio-environmental analysis. The study revealed socio-environmental, educational, infrastructure and health issues, among other public services. It follows that, even with the absence of public educational and environmental policies, focused on sustainability, the materiality of environmental knowledge is based on the concern for the conservation of local bio-socio-diversity, made explicit through work actions, experienced in the collective.