A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL COMO CAMINHO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL

Abstract

The work aims to review and reflect on Environmental Education (EE) as a path to sustainable development in the field of education. The latter, more specifically, in teaching. To do so, it starts from the history and logic of the subject, in its transience, constituting a review article. As a result, this study was carried out through an exploratory approach, with a qualitative method, of inductive reasoning, based on a bibliographic and documentary review for conceptual appropriation. Its relevance turns to the approach of two inter, multi and transdisciplinary issues, which reveal and complement each other in a broader social understanding. The reflections treated here under the context of Environmental Education point to the challenge of the respective field. This must conceive and disseminate scientific knowledge arising from and inherent to Education and sustainable development, which are capable of operating with the transformation of the current social paradigm, in which this science is amalgamated, to what is expected in the future: contextualized and articulated environmental education. with the paradigm of sustainable development. It concludes that the challenge of incorporating education for sustainable development into teaching must be faced through Environmental Education. Environmental Education is a comprehensive form of education, which aims to reach all citizens, through a permanent participatory process that seeks to instill a critical awareness of environmental issues.