Construindo caminhos educativos para interpretação do ambiente pantaneiro
Abstract
The present thesis of Doctoral study is the resulted of research under the Post
Graduation Programme of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Federal University of
São Carlos (UFSCar) titling Constructing Educative Ways for Interpretation of the
Pantanal s Environment . It reflects the research carried out about a pedagogical filter
of the environmental education, with images of the Pantanal s ecology to interpret
natural and cultural dimensions in two communities: Mimoso, São Pedro de Joselândia
and other places located in the municipalities of Santo Antonio of the Leverger, Poconé
and Barão de Melgaço, in Mato Grosso Sate, where we face many sort of environmental
impacts and problems to protect the large wetland, in its broad meaning of nature and
society. The presented results represent an effort of Environmental Education Group
Researcher (GPEA) of Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), which is built by
many researchers from multidisciplinary approaches for understanding the ecological
and cultural diversities of these two communities. The results reveal the fragile meaning
of sustainable development, since we realised it is far from its implementation,
especially that related to education dimension which claims for sustainable societies.
The studies reflect new image s ways (photos), considering the aesthetic sensitivity as
an important tool to promote a responsible and ethical look for the environment. The
image s discourse of the investigated groups discloses lack of critical awareness in
relation to the linked dimensions between human being, society and nature. In a similar
way, it is observed that aesthetic of the image s discourse is suffering by lack of care in
terms of ethical; poetical; management or policy to built the concept of development
and its sustainability. The research was conducted by environmental education
principles, considering the ethno knowledge of Pantanal s communities, for interpreting
and perceiving the ecological space and social dimension of the wetland of their
habitants