Análise de ambientalização universitária: o programa de logística sustentável da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR

Abstract

The discussions around the environmental theme are present in various spaces of society, among them, the formal axis in educational spaces. Thus, the University Environmentalization is a theme present in these discussions, since it focuses on inserting the environmental theme in Higher Education Institutions contributing to the formation of a critical subject, who walks in search of building a sustainable society. Therefore, this work sought to contribute through analysis and reflection on the University Environmentalization, analyzing the UTFPR's Sustainable Logistics Program (PLS) that is present in the 13 campuses of this University, seeking to understand the existence or not of practices of Environmental Education and Sustainability in the Higher Education Institution, and how these actions taken by PLS, are contributing to the University (teaching, research, extension) and also for the community in general. Within the methodological procedures for this research a quantiqualitative research approach was carried out. In this way, an investigation was carried out in the PLS reports from the years 2016, 2017 and 2018, which are the ones that exist so far in the University's website. We sought to understand what Environmental Education and Sustainability we are talking about at the UTFPR campuses, identifying their perspectives (conservationist, pragmatic and critical) and reflecting on the practices presented in the reports. With this data it was possible to identify the propensity for pragmatic practices on the Campuses. These data showed the importance of University Environmentalization when we look at these actions raised, as a way to break with naive, utilitarian and punctual actions.