A educação ambiental e a sustentabilidade: abordagem ecorrelacional no assentamento da Fazenda Angico

Abstract

The recognition of environmental of education as an important mechanism of politico-social and economic interaction, and essential factor to the improvement of people life quality in rural areas encouraged in me the desire to develop this research with families settled in Angico Farm, aiming to ensure the local sustainability in an ecorelational perspective. Accordingly,a qualitative study based on a bibliographic and local research was carried out, a case study of settled people perception relating to the ecological aspects and to the use of the natural resources of the place, aiming to ensure the place sustainability. In this perspective, it was sought to study the implications and contradictions of educational practices of settled people in the ecological environmental consciousness level. It was used a methodology with interviews with 17 social authors who were references into the settlement, with input of Eco-relational Perspective-PER on the responsible socio environmental practices executed by the group of families, which can help in the construction of an interventional proposition. The general objective of the study is to analyze the socio environmental practices of the settled families as a collaborative device in the building of an ecorelational consciousness; ancestor environmental practices, which are still performed by the group of settled families relating to the soil, land, water, agriculture, livestock, garbage, pesticides. Socio environmental practices were found in the daily of Angico settled families relating to the feeds treatment, to the daily water care to avoid water wastage, as well as to the soil, fauna and flora resources relationship, highlighting, mainly, the harmonious coexistence.