Educação ambiental e resíduos sólidos urbanos: revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

This Thesis explores the topic of urban solid waste (USW) from the perspective of Environmental Education (EE) through the methodology of systematic literature review. These standards, among other elements, regulate the inclusion of EE as a didactic-pedagogical tool at all levels of worldwide education. Discussions began outside Brazil and were introduced into the national legal framework through events and declarations. Between the establishment of national curricular guidelines for EE and the pandemic, dissertative works were recorded on the relationship between USW and the political field of values and practices of teachers committed to student empowerment, ethics, and citizenship. A careful selection of these works was made for this thesis, which became the object of study and analysis. The general objective was to analyze, through a systematic review of the literature of theses and dissertations, the socially constructed relationships between USW and household USW in the educational environment. As a further development of this central idea, we examined the trends in schools’ currents, the the legal system role, and events in EA constitution and RSU. The qualitative methodology included a systematic literature review and textual analysis. The thesis is structured in five chapters. After the introduction, there is a literature review, analyzing the existing literature and the specific research modalities, followed by an analysis of the sample. The conclusion is that the establishment and integration of critical EE into the educational process, overcoming the so-called conservative and pragmatic EE, is part of the didacticpedagogical practices of teachers in educational institutions. The topic of USW is also quite comprehensive and diverse, incorporating technical, humanistic, and sociocultural approaches and allows students to take a leading role. Across the 63 papers analyzed, the authors’ call for reflection on the logic of capitalist production, consumption, waste, and socioeconomic and environmental inequalities was evident.