As ações educativas ambientais das Organizações Não-Governamentais ambientalistas no estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Abstract

The Environmental NGOs (ENGOs) have performed a relevant role to environmental education actions worldwide. Due to the lack of wide researches regarding its identification and performance, this article presents a mapping of the ENGOs in São Paulo state, Brazil, that work with environmental education and analyses their quality under a critical framework. We consulted four databases, where we found 276 ENGOs, of which 63,4% act with environmental education. Moreover, we conducted interviews with members of the ENGOs, which allowed us to analyze the quality of these actions considering the objectives provided by the organizations, classifying them according to their main political and pedagogical trend. The results highlight that the environmental education actions are quantitatively wide, embracing a significant part of São Paulo’s territory and population. However, they are qualitatively limited and questionable when we analyze them under a critical framework on environmental education.