Abstract

ARNALDO, Maria Aparecida  and  SANTANA, Luiz Carlos. Public policies for an Environmental Education and mediation processes in elementary schools. Ciência educ. [online]. 2018, vol.24, n.3, pp.599-619. ISSN 1980-850X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320180030005.

This article sees the school as a space for mediation in public policies for environmental education and the processes by which this mediation takes place. After the questionnaires, we selected seven elementary schools of a city in São Paulo state, which were investigated through interviews, observation and document analysis. The results showed that by: involving crosscutting, interdisciplinary and project work in the development of environmental education; understanding environmental education as a possibility of awareness of the subjects on environmental issues; considering students as multipliers of knowledge about environmental issues and; integrating the community using the environmental theme, the investigated schools developed processes where the mediations of public environmental education policies are manifested. It was noted, however, that such processes, predominantly showing, pragmatic conceptions of environmental education, lead several times, to beliefs in changes in the structures of society.

Keywords : Environmental education; Public policy; Mediation; Public school.

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