Manifesto pela terra e ecofeminismo: um estudo sobre a natureza, direitos e o desemparedamento da infância na ecopedagogia

Abstract

Characterized as a qualitative study reviewing the literature and documents guiding education, this course completion work visits academic works and productions published in the UFSCar Institutional Repository (IR), such as Course Completion Papers (TCCs), dissertations and theses, to discuss the tensions between the capitalist paradigm, nature and education, presenting the rights of nature and biocentric perspectives as a possible way to redirect the mode of production and life from an ecofeminist perspective. By linking patriarchal capitalism with environmental collapse and the imprisonment of children, the aim is to point to experiences of imprisonment (Tiriba, 2018) in early childhood education as exercises and movements of reconnection with nature and the web of life (Capra, 1996), revealing the power of relationships of partnership and care between children and adults, and the latter with the Earth. In this way, starting from micro-social relationships, the study highlights relationships with communities and environmental surroundings, highlighting the protagonism and ways of being of children, their social, cultural and, above all, natural relationships in the field of curriculum, more specifically the ecopedagogical curriculum, proposing criticisms and alternatives to the unsustainable mode of production and humanity's divorce with nature. The study concludes that the natural dimension is important for children's integral development, with nature being an active subject and support for planetary life, with whom children can create and be aware of their body's desires and limits, awakening them to relationships of care and respect for natural limits.