REFLECTIONS ON THE EJA CURRICULUM AND EXPERIENCES IN A SUSTAINABILITY NETWORK BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

Abstract

The work aims to reflect on the importance of Environmental Education in the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) curriculum, understanding it as a powerful tool to give new meaning to educational actions in these school contexts. It aims to contribute to the promotion of experiences in a sustainability network beyond the classroom, aiming at the formation of individuals who are more aware and focused on environmental issues , as well as sustainable development, since the conception of EJA is based on the Freirian ideas of education that prioritize genuine educational processes in order to bring women and men to awareness, especially of their realities in order to transform them. In other words, a popular, emancipatory and liberating education. Critical approaches to curriculum and the role of this social and cultural artifact in people's lives are especially discussed. Important reflections from the book “Ideas to postpone the end of the world” by Krenak (2020) are discussed, considering the impacts of neoliberal policy actions on the environment; highlights the 17 (seventeen) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created by the United Nations (UN) summit. It uses the qualitative research approach, the methodology developed was a bibliographic study on the topic at hand here. Therefore, the collection of information was carried out through the survey and analysis of articles, books and journalistic reports in recent years.