Educação ambiental dialógica no assentamento São Gonçalo – Crateús-CE: a terra como mãe, a ternura no caminhar e novas atitudes no viver

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to relate the understanding about Environmental Education, implicit in the practice of the community of rural settlement São Gonçalo, with the principles of Environmental Dialogic Education and to discover how these can contribute to the sustainability of the settlement. Environmental Dialogic Education is based on the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and the Eco-Relational Perspective. One might take into account that the relation between the community itself and the nonhuman nature differs from the one between community and itself and, also, community between the territories. Therefore, this approach seeks to work environmental education under the lights of the transforming relationship through dialogue, knowledge, information and knowledge exchange. It contributes to the organization, participation and self-management of the settlement. As a reference, it was used the Earth Charter and the Environmental Education Treaty for Sustainable Societies and Global Responsibility, important documents of the ECO-92 or Earth Summit, also called the Global Forum 92, promoted by civil society organizations. These documents affirm ethical principles and fundamental values that guide communities, schools, countries, cultures, races and people for the common good, through global sustainability, which includes socio-environmental justice and a responsibility with the non-exhaustion of nature as infinite resource. During the research, differences of conceptions of the people interviewed and who participated in the circle of culture in the treatment of environmental education and daily actions with the environment were perceived, from the social representations about the environmental education in a perception that transited between a reading globalizing and anthropocentric. This difference implies a contradiction proper to contemporaneity. It presents contradictions in the way of conducting care with land and animals, as well as in the direction of collective and individual work, but it denotes commitment to the collective actions of the settlement.