<b>The formation of critical environmental educators: concepts and practice

Abstract

The contradictions of model of capitalistic society, especially in the form of socioenvironmental crisis, have intensified. The Environmental Education (EE) Critical emerges as indispensable mechanism for overcoming this context. However, an EE Conservative, pervasive in its making, supports the maintenance of the existing corporate standard making it, ideologically, natural. To address this issue, the formation of critical environmental educators brings a real possibility, why not created for the establishment of an EE of historical trend that aims at human emancipation. Thus, in order to reflect on the formation of educators in the broad sense and the formation of environmental educators in the strict sense, we investigated the conceptions of the Environment and of Environmental Education, as well as the educational practices in the area, of a group of educators in the formation process - participants in the construction of the Policy Municipal of Environmental the process and interviews at the end. To complement this analysis, we started with a theoretical study not only the environmental field, but also in discussions about formation of educators. In this analysis, therefore, the statements of the educators demonstrated, hegemonic, representations and practices influenced by visions of the world ideologically. It is believed, therefore, that to form environmental educators that envisage the transformation, in a collective movement, it is essential to consolidate a theoretical framework that brings the debate to critical social theory in order to organize their practice, enhance and develop teacher knowledge in their multiple dimensions, sewing school and university in the praxis of a relational approach.