Um estudo sobre compreensões acerca de complexidade em teses e dissertações brasileiras de educação ambiental que se relacionam com a educação em ciências

Abstract

There is an expressive and qualified number of academic works that refers to complexities when they discuss environmental themes through the fields of environmental education and science education. We investigated, based on theses and dissertations in the field of environmental education, understandings about the idea of ​​complexities related to the discourses that involve environmental education and science education. For the construction of the documentary corpus we used the EArte´s database (Estado da Arte em Educação Ambiental). We selected twenty theses and dissertations to compose the documentary corpus of this investigation. For the analysis of this material, we used the Content Analysis procedure. We built four categories: Complex Thinking, Complex Systems, Complexification and Complexities and Pedagogical Practices. We can point out that the idea of ​​complexity is often supported in these works from the considerations of Enrique Leff, Edgar Morin and Ilya Prigogine. However, Morin's theoretical considerations tend to predominate in these works, indicating a perspective of discussing complexity more through the complexification of reality and thought than by considering the complexity itself of natural and social phenomena.