THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMANCIPATORY NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN TEACHER TRAINING
Emancipatory national environmental education; Critical awareness; Initial teacher training; Human emancipation; Brazil.
This dissertation presents the results of a research developed in the Graduate Program in Education of the Instituto Federal Catarinense, linked to the line of research Formative Processes and Educational Policies, which main objective was to analyze the possibilities and challenges for the development of an emancipatory national environmental education in the initial training of teachers. Methodologically, the study was developed from bibliographic and documental research. With regard to bibliographic research, we used authors guided by historical-dialectical materialism and by Brazilian and Latin American critical thinking. For the documentary research, educational legislation related to teacher training and also to environmental education were analyzed, among which we mention: Resolution CNE/CP 01, of February 18, 2002, Resolution CNE/CP 2/2015, Resolution CNE /CP 2/2019, Resolution CNE/CP No. 2/2012, the National Environmental Educator Training Program (proFEA) and the legislation on the National Environmental Education Policy - PNEA. In the study, the concept of emancipatory national environmental education seeks to contextualize, problematize and discuss the relationship between human beings and nature in the face of the specificities of the Brazilian environment, situated in its underdeveloped peripheral condition and dependent capitalism. The need for the presence of this concept of environmental education in the most varied educational spaces is defended, but mainly in the initial training of teachers. The present study found that the development of emancipatory national environmental education in the initial training of teachers still constitutes a pedagogical challenge, but above all a political one.