Research in Environmental Education and Epistemological Issues: (Re) Construction of the epistemological tissue

Abstract

In this article, we provide reflections, problematizations and desires regarding the Research Discussion Group (GDP) on Research in Environmental Education (EE) and Epistemological Issues that emerged from the XI Meeting of Research in Environmental Education, held in Salvador/BA, from May 7 to 10, 2023. The aim of this article was to build an epistemic tissue that reflects the work generated during the serious health, economic, social and environmental crisis of COVID-19 and presented at the Meeting. Seven texts were stitched together, starting with the phenomenological perception of human action through visual thinking, moving on to reflect on concepts such as participation, climate justice, the naming of subjects and the presentation of new popular and ancestral-based epistemes. It also looked at research related to basic education and pointed to the future of EE research. The disproportion of works in the GDPs caused concern, as we found fewer registrations in the GDP Epistemological issues and an increase in the GDPs of Culture, Interculturality and Decoloniality and Political Ecology. It was noted that the analysis must involve a reading of the epistemology of the specific GDP articles, but if the proposal is to promote dialogue, we leave the record of new challenges for future debates. The centrality of the epistemological discussion does not suggest that this GDP is diluted in the others. But, perhaps, he can enunciate the epistemological interlaces from a whole, collecting impressions, readings, analyses, etc. coming from the experience at EPEA, rather than coming from texts allocated to a specific group for the event.