Economia ecológica: uma profissão do futuro a partir de uma pedagogia ecossistêmica

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the teaching of the Ecological Economy and its capacity to formulate a pedagogy of its own, responding to demands of society regardingnew professional profiles. As a theoretical reference, it used works produced by theorists of higher education, social sciences and the main theorists of the recent field of Ecological Economy, in order to search for methodological keys, some of them, in use in the pioneering experience of the Federal University of Ceará. The research qualitatively analyzed elements of the undergraduate course experience in Ecological Economics, its pedagogical intent, expressed in the course project, linked to the debate on the University's purposes. It was concluded that the construction of an own pedagogy, ecosystem, in a biocentric perspective, needs a historical path that contains theoretical and practical elaboration of the subjects involved, the recent proposition ofa bachelor in Ecological Economy points to a horizon of sustainable societies, starting from principles of environmental justice and ecological economy. Thus, reflected in the current socio-environmental demands, this new professional has a field of possibilities of acting in the public and private sectors.