The antibodies of Gaia in the encounter of waters: Learning trajectories of youths on the roads of environmentalism / Anticorpos de Gaia no encontro das águas": trajetórias de aprendizagem de jovens nas trilhas do ambientalismo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This Thesis analyzes the processes of environmental engagement by youths with emphasis on the life narratives of members of youth environmental groups and the history of the São Paulo Youth Environmental Collective (YEC-SP), Antibodies of Gaia. The research is based on video recorded interviews with youths in Brazil and Canada, field observation, virtual interaction, studies of documents and bibliographic research. The trajectories are analyzed in categories that aggregate different influences of the life experiences upon the engagement, as: the contact with nature, relationships with school and work and participation in youth environmental groups. The constitution and evolution of YEC-SP are shown as axes that articulate the trajectories of the São Paulo´s interviewed youths. The crossing of the processes of learning, socialization and practical action is observed all along the ecological identity formation at the individual and group level. The conditionants of environmental engagement and the crossing of these processes are discussed and comprehended within a social-historical perspective, which valorize the positive action of the educational structures and spaces produced by society and oriented towards a culture of sustainability. The analytic view for the influences of these educational structures and spaces on the individual and groups trajectories dialogues with pedagogical and sociological theories, that value the symbolic interaction present on the daily experience, that promote the formation of the subject on his relations with others, with the environment and with himself. The ideas of Alain Touraine, Alberto Melucci, Etienne Wenger, Herbert Blumer, Humberto Maturana, John Dewey, Karl Mannheim, Pascal Galvani, Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, between others, contributed to discuss the processes of ecological creation of identity that happens, in a singular way, on the life of each one of the youth analyzed here. It was verified that the youth environmental groups establish communities of practice, that, in dialogue with the new social movements, empower the learning, the formation of social nets and the processes of intervention oriented by social and environmental responsibility. The Thesis suggests the increase of incentives to public policies that help to strengthen these communities of practice and the interchange between them (on the local and global level).

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environmental education juventude meio ambiente educação education environment engajamento youth engagement educação ambiental

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