Diálogos Insurgentes entre Educação Ambiental e Culturas no Encontro Pesquisa em Educação Ambiental (EPEA)

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the theme Environmental Education and Cultures with an emphasis on the works presented since the first Research Meeting in Environmental Education in 2001 until the reflections that occurred in the Research Discussion Group of this research subfield, during the X EPEA of the year 2019. In addition to bringing an account of the discussions, the article focuses on the evolution of the themes of works related to cultures, presented in the first four editions of EPEA (2001-2007), in a modest state of art made using search terms related to the theme, present in their abstracts. We found that, during this period, investigations were, predominantly, linked to the categories of culture and knowledge, which were covered by works in all editions. The themes of Cultural Studies, Inter/multiculturality and Coloniality were not present in the investigations of this subfield presented at the EPEA, in the period, being necessary to deepen the extension of this phenomenon in magazines and databases of dissertations and theses, as well as to evaluate the epistemological and sociopolitical developments of the attention that has been given by the field of research in Environmental Education to the perspectives that recognize and give voice to different cultures, aiming to overcome the silencing processes that prevent full participation in decision-making processes and in social life. Such themes have recently appeared in GDP EA and Culturas that value dialogicity and inter/multiculturality, with criticisms of coloniality and expanding the epistemological, political-methodological and ontological possibilities of Environmental Education Research.