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Qualidade de Vida, Mobilidade e Segurança nas Cidades_ Vol. 1

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Abstract<br />

In the context of a consumer society and at the same time, producing risks to human life, we have<br />

noticed that individuals have sought alternatives to face the new threat environment, generated by<br />

rampant consumerism. And so, Environmental Education has been inserted in or<strong>de</strong>r to optimize this<br />

"awakening" of society. Assuming that Ecopedagogy while i<strong>de</strong>ntity of a Brazilian Environmental<br />

Education, is foun<strong>de</strong>d upon principles that value autonomy and collective participation, a holistic<br />

view of the human relationship with the world and everyday life while the sense of place of learning<br />

practices productive. The study focuses on the analysis of an experience of building a school<br />

Agenda 21, discussing the potential for construction a planetary citizenship, from spaces enablers of<br />

autonomy. Also procee<strong>de</strong>d with an account of an experience of a workshop <strong>de</strong>veloped with stu<strong>de</strong>nts<br />

and teachers at a public school in the state of Pernambuco/Brazil. We can confirm that although the<br />

subjects of the school community have the sensitivity to environmental challenges, is still evi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />

treatment adopted as fragmented and discipline, <strong>de</strong>spite the need for a systemic un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of<br />

reality, in which school is situated, as it <strong>de</strong>ems quality of life, through a complex approach and<br />

<strong>de</strong>rived from an environmental citizenship in the local and global.<br />

Keywords: Ecopedagogy; Agenda 21 school; Education for sustainability; Planetary Citizenship.<br />

Introdução<br />

A socieda<strong>de</strong> contemporânea tem sofrido gran<strong>de</strong>s mudanças, a maior parte <strong>de</strong>stas<br />

<strong>de</strong>senca<strong>de</strong>ada com o crescimento exponencial da economia em sintonia com o avanço tecnológico,<br />

traduzido no retrato <strong>de</strong> um mundo informacional e economicamente globalizado. Diante da nossa<br />

atual configuração cultural como uma ―socieda<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> consumo‖, é fato que o padrão <strong>de</strong> vida adotado<br />

pelas pessoas não tem sido o mesmo <strong>de</strong> outrora, principalmente em função da facilida<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> acesso<br />

às benesses resultantes da interação crescimento/avanço alcançadas por uma parcela da socieda<strong>de</strong><br />

global. Paralelamente a esse aparente ―progresso‖, tem sido visível um veloz e acentuado processo<br />

<strong>de</strong> exploração dos recursos naturais, a partir do qual regiões que antes eram gran<strong>de</strong>s mantenedoras<br />

do patrimônio ambiental foram se tornando áreas extremamente pobres e vulneráveis.<br />

Frente a esse quadro, coletivos <strong>de</strong> civis e governos têm se mobilizado <strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> a segunda<br />

meta<strong>de</strong> do século XX, na tentativa <strong>de</strong> reverter os prejuízos gerados ao ambiente pela nossa<br />

―socieda<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> risco‖ (BECK, 1997) já que, <strong>de</strong>ntro dos atributos <strong>de</strong>sse perfil <strong>de</strong> socieda<strong>de</strong>, são<br />

típicos a imprevisibilida<strong>de</strong> dos riscos e o movimento reativo da socieda<strong>de</strong> às ameaças ambientais<br />

produzidas pelo consumismo exacerbado. A partir <strong>de</strong>sse contato com os riscos produzidos por si<br />

própria, a socieda<strong>de</strong> tem se tornado cada vez mais reflexiva, tornando-se autocrítica (JACOBI,<br />

2005) e, nesse processo, a Educação Ambiental (EA) tem tido um papel fundamental, no sentido <strong>de</strong><br />

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