Contribuições da análise crítica do discurso para uma reflexão sobre questões do campo da Educação Ambiental: olhares de educadores em ciências

Abstract

In this paper, having Critical Discourse Studies as a starting point, we: (i) argue for the potential of critical perspectives for research on Environmental Education; (ii) problematize the nature of different discourses which constitute environmental educators' practices and (iii) debate the role of scientific discourse in the constitution of the environmental discourse in the media. The discussion is based upon relationships between research done in the fields of Science Education and Environmental Education, and also on results of investigations carried out at the Science and Health Education Graduate Studies Programme at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.