Educação ambiental formal e não-formal: um olhar a teoria e a prática

Abstract

The focus of the present study, using a qualitative approach, was to show the importance of the parallel development of environmental education in formal and non-formal teaching, considering the development of critical and active citizens in light of the current local and World environmental situation. Additionally, it is of interest to promote reflection on a few topics related to the environmental theme, emphasizing some aspects related to the topic in question. Thus, theoretical support for this reflection was used from studies and contributions made by researchers in the field of environmental education, such as Paulo Freire, Moacir Gadotti, Pedro Jacobi, among others. From this analysis, it was found that the key factor for promoting the necessary changes in our environment is the stimulation of the exercise of citizenship, and that consequently environmental education is intrinsically tied to this stimulus, exercising the fundamental role of providing critical reflections in terms of societal questions and the current state of environmental degradation. However, it was observed that education for citizenship is not such a simple task these days. Therefore making certain changes in the current educational system is fundamental, and mainly, it is necessary that citizens become aware of their own reality and that they start to feel as if they are an integral part of the environment and that they act as protagonists of the environmental transformation process.