Education, Sustainability and Democracy: Making the Diversity of Political Pedagogical Projects Explicit

Authors

  • Gustavo Ferreira da Costa Lima Universidade Federal da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v20i0.15181

Keywords:

education, sustainability, democracy

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between education, sustainability and democracy in relationto the Education for Sustainable Development proposal – ESD led by UNESCO, several internationalorganizations, educational systems of European countries, and the scientific production that supports it.It evaluates the contradictions and implications of this proposal on the matters that are related to educationand environmental issues, as well as explores the possibilities to build a complex and democraticeducational system that assimilates environmental issues under a political and critical perspective. Therefore,it deals with the discussion and explanation of socio-educational projects, and with the intention ofredeeming the diversity of world views, society and education that we wish for and can build together.To achieve this task this paper dialogues with theoretical references of Political Ecology and CriticalTradition and organizes the reflection in two moments: in the first one it criticizes the problematic aspects of the proposal mentioned above. In the second it explores the possibilities of building a relation between

education and sustainability that integrates and encourages participative democracy, civil society andits ethical and political dimensions.

Author Biography

Gustavo Ferreira da Costa Lima, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Professor e pesquisador Departamento de Ciências Sociais - DCS e do Programa Regional de Pós-Graduação em Meio Ambiente e desenvolvimento - PRODEMA, ambos da Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB Sociologia. Doutor pelo IFCH-UNICAMP. Temáticas prioritárias: relação sociedade-ambiente, desenvolvimento sustentável, educação ambiental, ambientalismo.

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Published

2009-12-21

How to Cite

Lima, G. F. da C. (2009). Education, Sustainability and Democracy: Making the Diversity of Political Pedagogical Projects Explicit. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 20. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v20i0.15181

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Vol. 20 (2009)

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