Paulo Freire’s contribution for environmental education

Abstract

There are recurrent discussions about the approach in the teaching of the Environmental Education, fomented, mainly, by the aggravation of the environmental crisis that is a result of the consumption society. The environmentalist knowledge, in its historical path, went by a ripening process revealing that, in its interior, political and average forces theoretic-methodological are faced. In this context, this project aims at investigate the contributions brought by Paulo Freire in teaching Environmental Education, in the following books: Pedagogia da Autonomia – saberes necessários à prática educativa, Pedagogia da esperança – um reencontro com a Pedagogia do Oprimido, Educação e Atualidade Brasileira e Professora sim, tia não – cartas a quem ousa ensinar. In the search of this contribution a history of the environmental education was built and inside of this, the possible approaches. In synthesis, the pedagogy of Freire brings an important theoretic-methodological contribution to an environmental education consolidated from the dialogue, of the world perception and valorization of the individual knowledge that can contribute to a critical formation of the person ecologically responsible.