Processo de institucionalização da educação ambiental: tendências, correntes e concepções

Abstract

Environmental education is arising from a network of concepts, through intense dialogs and disputes on the meaning of the relationship between society and nature. The present work aimed to analyze the narrative of environmental education, focusing on the main tendencies and concepts which the latest speeches of the environmental educators have been based on. The analysis of environmental concepts reveals that there is a great diversity to be enriched, in synchronous perspective, by the combination of elements through complementary conceptions that present several ways resulted from the historical evolution of environment education's own institutionalization. Environmental education is building several new ways of thinking and acting, responding to a diverse line of discussions that form the environmental education process.