Introduction

The Graduate Program in Environmental Education (PPGEA) aims at qualifying teachers-researchers capable of contributing to the production and dissemination of knowledge and its transformation in the field of Environmental Education in its multiple dimensions. Our major concern is the training of human resources in Environmental Education to all areas of knowledge. Currently, virtually all areas of knowledge developed at FURG have ties with Environmental Education, as already said above. The Program results from the creation of the Master’s Program, in 1994, and the Doctoral Program, in 2006. Based in an interdisciplinary perspective, the Program counts with the integration of teachers linked to different programs or course units that make up the new organizational structure of the Institution. It usually happens that teachers who work in different courses at the undergraduate level end up, as a consequence, showing an approach and a more critical incentive to students from different areas of knowledge that come to get involved in the area of Environmental Education. In parallel, this process results in the direct and indirect participation in activities developed and events promoted, and later they look at the Program (master’s and doctoral degrees) as an option for qualification at the graduate level. This movement of sensitization has been constituted in a positive trend in relation to our Graduate Program.

Dissertação - Roberta Avila Pereira

Educação ambiental popular e o PAIETS: compreensões sobre o horizonte formativo de um programa de extensão

Autor: Roberta Avila Pereira (Currículo Lattes)

Resumo

A dissertação intitulada "Educação Ambiental Popular e o PAIETS: compreensões sobre o horizonte formativo de um programa de extensão" aborda a temática da Educação Ambiental Popular como contribuição no campo educativo ao Programa de Auxílio ao Ingresso nos Ensinos Técnico e Superior (PAIETS) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). A questão que impulsionou a pesquisa foi: Quais horizontes compreensivos da Educação Ambiental Popular revelam-se no PAIETS? Desta forma, como contexto de abertura frente a temática destacada, foram evidenciados os contextos de atuação e leituras de mundo que o Programa abarca. Ainda, a partir de uma abordagem filosófica da hermenêutica gadameriana, enquanto um percurso teórico-metodológico, objetivou-se compreender os aspectos inerentes à Educação Ambiental Popular constituída no espaço do Programa de Extensão PAIETS. Acredita-se que a Educação Ambiental Popular e os saberes emergentes dessa proposta instigam a redefinição das bases formativas num horizonte mais humano, crítico e integral do PAIETS.

TEXTO COMPLETO

Palavras-chave: Educação ambiental não formalEducação popularEducação ambientalPAIETSHermenêutica filosófica