Environmental education and multiculturalism: reflections for the education of educators

• Main Authors: Valdir Nogueira, Sônia Maria Marchiorato Carneiro, Maria do Rosário Knechtel, José Edmilson de Souza Lima, Angélica Góis Müller Morales
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa 2010-07-01
• Series: Práxis Educativa
• Subjects: Educação ambiental; Multiculturalismo; Formação de educadores ambientais; Environmental education; Multiculturalism; Education of environmental educators
• Online Access: http://www.revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/1010/945

This paper aims to reflect on the relation between Multiculturalism and Environmental Education, focusing on the education of environmental educators. The cultural question and some of its implications, along with the need for a comprehensible cultural conception in view of various coexisting lifestyles in different places and regions, are approached within the context of globalisation, which acts upon culture. It is assumed that Education, when brought together with a socioenvironmental perspective, is capable of promoting democratic citizenship and thus should be directed to multicultural purposes, reinforcing interculturality. This perspective requires thinking the education of educators in a complex and dialectical world view, valuing interdisciplinarity and encouraging sociocultural practices for the development of environmental education.