Ecoalfabetização: ensinando a ler a natureza

Abstract

This article discusses about some meanings attributed to nature and practiced by ecoliteracy, approach on Environmental Education which consists of the search for implementing ways to sustainable ecology, by the use of observation and apprenticeship of the environmental systems. One of the cultural representations discussed here is about a presumed separation between human being and nature, that would be the main reason for the ecological unbalance. If, by this thought, it can be supposed that our way of life is becoming less "natural", it is defended here that the word "natural" doesn't have an inherent meaning, but is a culturalconstruction. We register that these defining constructions concerning what is and what isn't "natural" obtain constitutive effects, political and pedagogic. Ecoliteracy critics argue that it can be identified as an ecological determinism, considering that some rules from natural world are transposed to rule society.