Sustainable schools: analysis of experience from Freirean Thought

Abstract

Faced with the serious socio-environmental crisis across the planet, schools can be dangerous for the transformation of this reality. The present study investigates a sustainable school in order to list and characterize essential elements in the curriculum, management and physical space, articulated to Freirean thinking. The data collection instruments consist of field and semi-structured interviews, a political pedagogical project diary and photographs. The results indicate that management was the axis capable of connecting with other guiding dimensions, mainly because it is associated with elements that strengthen it, such as democracy, dialogue and participation. The curriculum was the axis that needed a longer duration and approximation with Freirean thought. In turn, the physical space, through its transformations, favored dialogue and participation between school contents.