Revista Teias
Print version ISSN 1518-5370On-line version ISSN 1982-0305
Abstract
SOUZA, Tiago Zanquêta de and OLIVEIRA, Maria Waldenez de. POPULAR EXTENSION IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: living in work community. Revista Teias [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.68, pp.220-236. Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305. https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2022.54099.
A This article is the result of a doctoral research in Education, which investigated the Popular Extension in Environmental Education, developed by a Work Community, in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais/Brazil. It aims to present the educational processes inherent to this social practice. The theoretical framework of the research is linked to the field of popular education, popular extension and popular environmental education. The data collection procedure was participant observation, whose data were recorded in field diaries and analyzed through content analysis. The popular extension strengthened the effectiveness of a working community that has been sustained by living together and revealed educational processes such as learning to trust, to dare, to communicate, to dialogue, to face fear, to empower struggle, to overcome naivety awareness, with ways to build emancipatory and humanizing knowledge.
Keywords : educational processes; popular extension; environmental education; social practice.