Rural youth and socio-environmental issues: Environmental Education in the context of social movements

Abstract

In this article we seek to discuss the socio-environmental issues, from the perspective of Critical Environmental Education, which are contained in the socio-environmental guidelines of the rural youth of the main Brazilian rural social movements. Using the discussion of rural youth as a political actor and of Critical Environmental Education, through a qualitative methodology of content analysis, we attempt to categorize the socio-environmental concerns contained in the positions of young people who militate in rural social movements. The research sources were the secondary data available on the websites, documents, and YouTube channels of the chosen rural social movements, between the years 2018 and 2021. Starting from Critical Environmental Education, with the purpose of understanding the denunciations and announcements that these young people have been making about their realities in the face of the environmental crisis. We believe that the discussions carried out in this work can contribute to the literature about this category, adding to the theme of rural youth the complexity of socio-environmental issues and their developments in reality, as well as makes explicit the organization of these young people in the socio-political confrontation of the environmental crisis.