Meio Ambiente e Educação Ambiental no MST: Representações Sociais no Assentamento 10 de Abril no Município do Crato-CE.

Abstract

This study focuses on the social representation of the environment and environmental education among the settlers of the Settlement on April 10, located in the municipality of Crato, state of Ceará. The importance of this work is directed with a view to understand aspects of environmental management in the process of agrarian reform Settlements. The methodology used for completion of this research was based on simultaneous analysis of qualitative data, using a methodology with particular emphasis on the research participant, using procedures such as literature and the internet, desk research, questionnaires and interviews, observation of meetings, informal conversations, collecting evidence and making maps monthly. The crucial question of the analysis concerns the lack of a consensus on what it means to the environment and environmental education in the Settlement settled on April 10. Thus, the terms environment and environmental education, used by those involved with the settlement, such as teachers, coaches, children, youth and adults, for they are inaccurate and reflect the daily practices in the settlement. Conflicts of interest arise when the subject turns to the implementation of environmental actions, because the differences on the social representations of the environment and environmental education are visible among the settlers themselves and the government and non-governmental organizations involved in the Settlement 10 April. Therefore environmental practices, despite the conceptual inaccurate conceptions about the environment and environmental education have been discussed in the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) and in several settlements, in order to strengthen a more just and equal society, whose construction is by a totalitarian vision of the human being and life.