A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL A PARTIR DAS CONCEPÇÕES DE NATUREZA E DE TRABALHO DE PESCADORES

Abstract

The article reflects about the Lagoa dos Patos estuary artisanal fishermen's conception of the regarding nature and labour, concepts with which Environmental Education can work to build socially just and environmentally sustainable forms of production and reproduction of life, like alternatives to modern industrial capitalist society. The relationship established with nature, characterized by the harmony and struggle of fishermen, in order to constitute a professional practice that is marked by the multipurpose, diverse, community and satisfactory nature among artesanal fishers, serves as a subsidy for Environmental Education in the organization of its praxis. The fishermen statements were obtained using the Oral History method. It is important for the Environmental Education, in order to enhance its critical, transformative and emancipatory character, to approach the traditional groups and communities and to build its praxis with them.

Keywords

• work
• fishing
• nature conservation
• work and education
• environmental education