Estética e Educação Ambiental no paradigma da complexidade

Abstract

This article aims to present some approaches between Aesthetics, Environmental Education (EE) and Edgar Morin's epistemology of complexity, willing to contribute to the understanding of the present socio-environmental situation, considering that transformations of ethical and aesthetics values modify attitudes and behaviours in the relations between humans and environment. Environmental Education, more than a new way of thinking and acting, represents the possibility of resignifying and renewing human thought/knowledge. Aesthetics is an essential element that allows the sensitive comprehension of cultural and social factors and the appearance of different mentalities and behaviours. That understanding allows us to think the subject through smooth movements, like the poetic and political power of institutionalised elements, and therefore we can reflect on the relations between ethics and aesthetics, politics and art, in contemporary society.