Macro-Trends in Brazilian Environmental Education: Some reflections based on Morin’s Theory of Complexity

Abstract

Environmental Education in Brazil is a multi, inter and transdisciplinary field of knowledge. It presents different trends that change according to focus and speeches based on different epistemologies. There are different ways to concept and to practice Environmental Education on three macro-trends related to political pedagogical models: Conservative, Pragmatic and Critical. Then the objective of this paper is to think about macro-trends in Environmental Education since Complexity perspective. For it, we present the history of Environmental Education in Brazil, after three macro-trends and their more and less highlighted characteristics and finally we think about it. Environmental Education under Complexity perspective pays attention especially to socioenvironmental problems that incorporate multiple properties of reality and it allows to integrate characteristics of macro-tends that are fragmented.