SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORIES OF TEACHERS AND TEACHERS PROTAGONISTS OF THE SUBJECT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 2024.1

Abstract

The Environmental Education Discipline (DEA) is one of the curricular components of the Master's and Doctorate Courses of the Postgraduate Program in Scientific Education and Science and Mathematics Teacher Training (PPG.ECFP), at the State University of Southwest Bahia (UESB ) .
This subject's general objective is to outline the main interfaces in the field of Critical Environmental Education in teacher training, in which some of the specific objectives emerge, namely: discussing changes in the field of Critical Environmental Education via official documents, understanding the interfaces between Education Environmental and Rural Education with Historical Materialism - Dialectical, understanding the Social Representations of teachers in Environmental Education and ecofeminism.
DEA has been part of the PPG.ECFP curriculum since 2015, as an elective subject with a 30-hour workload, containing the following syllabus: study of the society-nature relationship, based on debates on environmentalism; Science Education and Teaching; Reflection on the process of institutionalization of Environmental Education in Brazil; Debate on the main trends and public policies; formal and non-formal space in Environmental Education; and, training needs of teachers for critical, reflective and transformative action in the environmental field.
Throughout the nine classes (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), which made DEA happen, several strategies, partnerships and debates were materialized. A fruitful partnership is with the Research Group on Environmental Education and Teacher Training (GPEA-FP) which, throughout the offering of the discipline, has frequently participated in socializing the research developed by the group.
In this direction, we are moving towards strengthening the design that this discipline has achieved. Therefore, in 2024, the work methodology “Socio-environmental Memories” was born in which teachers enrolled at DEA presented their relationship with the environment.
In this E-book, readers will have the opportunity to read reports socialized in the discipline, which rescue childhood, professional work, the relationship with ongoing research produced by authors, portraying dormant memories throughout the journey of these and these professionals in continuing education, in which Environmental Education, in some way, was present in their journey, as people and professionals.
A recovery that goes beyond the various identities of Environmental Education, perhaps providing a rethinking of teaching practice and the natural and social being that we are. Thus, in the midst of the socio-environmental crisis that we are experiencing, which has its origins in the economy, politics, health, culture... caused by this current model of society, based on the spoliation of nature, the exploitation of human beings, the disregard of environmental laws, in the invasion of the reserves of original peoples, in environmental racism... methodologies based on rescuing socio-environmental memory enable knowledge of ourselves and others.
We, at DEA 2024.1, hope that reading this E-book can also encourage the reader to rethink their way of being, seeing, belonging and identifying with the environment.

Good reading!

Prof. Dr. Silvana do Nascimento Silva
Founder and lecturer at DEA