Educação Ambiental e a abordagem do Agronegócio no Ensino Médio: uma análise do material de apoio do governo do Estado de São Paulo

Abstract

This course completion work aims to analyze how environmental education is approached with a focus on agribusiness in public schools in the state of São Paulo. Agribusiness is the new term used to designate the latifundiary structure of colonial Brazil, being a set of agricultural activities that range from production to commerce, the result of an exploratory and conservative capitalist model, but which presents itself as modern agriculture, the salvation of the Brazilian economy and the major food producer. Behind this, there is an attempt to hide all the economic, social and environmental problems that this segment has been causing. Education is the instrument capable of forming critical, emancipated people who transform their reality, in the search for a fairer and more environmentally responsible society. Thus, the work intends to investigate how education in the state of São Paulo has been developing activities aimed at EA and how agribusiness is being portrayed in this context. The research is qualitative in nature through documentary analysis of the “Curriculum in Action” and “São Paulo Faz Escola” for high school, support materials made available by the Government of the State of São Paulo. From the activities present in these materials, different emphases were observed in the macro trends of Environmental Education in each material and throughout the years of High School, but in general, there was a distance from the critical macro trend of EA and the predominance of a pragmatic approach.