Patrimônio ambiental urbano e representações educacionais do espaço lacustre em Fortaleza (CE-Brasil)

Abstract

This thesis discusses the environmental issues, from social and educational challenges of sustainability and conservation of urban lagoons as environmental heritage in the city of Fortaleza, city located in the state of Ceará - Brazil. It takes as empirical object four lagoons named Precabura, Porangabussu, Messejana, Parangaba and the school units that are closer to these lacustrine sites. The objective is to examine the ways in which urban environmental heritage issue in education is promoted in order to assess the extent the actions and educational projects incorporate representations, values and everyday practices that school groups and population that surround them express their relationship to the environmental heritages. The theoretical framework supports dialogue among distinct forms of disciplinary knowledge, notably, Geography, History, Sociology, Philosophy, and Social Psychology. This is a qualitative research anchored in the social representations theory and its structural approach, the Central Nucleus Theory (CNT). The thesis relies on the discussion of the environmental and heritage issues, social representations, landscape and affection. The authors that subsidize the analysis are: Augustin Berque, Christian Oliveira, Claire Damery, Françoise Choay, Dominique Poulot, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Jean-Marc Besse, Jungen Habermas, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Michel Rautenberg, Serge Moscovici and Simone Scifone, among others. The study highlights the absence of an educational project that reconciles environmental and heritage issues that consider a sociocultural approach guided by human values expressed in the representations of the school community and residents who live near the lacustrine sites. The model of current school education ignores the power of communication and the environmental heritage awareness of these paisagens-ambiências. This actually works for the maintenance and the worsening condition of unsustainability that characterizes the lagoons that are natural and environmental heritage of Fortaleza. Therefore, it is imperative that the school community effectively assume its role as a mediator in the recognition, appreciation, enjoyment and conservation of environmental heritage process. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to invest in educational strategies that overcome the far-reaching environmental / heritage approach publicized and widespread by the media-ecosystem speech and privilege the social representations that communities have in relation to their environmental goods.