EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY: PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES FOCUSED ON SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE I EUREKA - SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FAIR

Abstract

The I Eureka – Science and Mathematics Fair aimed to involve students in educational processes with an emphasis on education for Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Financial Education. In this experience report, we will present aspects of the I Eureka as a pedagogical activity responsible for the student's formative encounter with a view to understanding the world and its transformations, placing man as an individual who integrates the universe, thus being responsible for its transformation. The scientific explanation of natural phenomena, the elaboration of various ways of consciously intervening in the environment, the use of natural resources and their importance were topics discussed during the development of activities, which contributed to social formation, citizenship and with perspectives of formation to the world of work by discussing and thinking about sustainability based on entrepreneurship. We reflect, therefore, that the knowledge systematized during the I Eureka contributed to the development of practices whose purpose is to minimize the degradation of the environment, appropriation of scientific information, in addition to the discussion about entrepreneurship and socio-environmental development in the Amazon.