Estudos culturais em educação ambiental : os usos e consumos dos produtos culturais em espaços na/da biorregião do Caparaó Capixaba

Abstract

This research "Cultural Studies in Environmental Education: the uses and consumption of cultural products in the bioregion of Caparaó Capixaba" is the result of studies of the Doctorate in Education and was performed with the active local characters of Patrimônio da Penha e Pedra Menina, located in the straight surroundings of the National Park of Caparaó in ES. These active characters are seen as those who seek to live in the best possible way, with the art of handcrafts, creating, recreating the everyday life, silently escaping out to place assigned to them, according to Michel de Certeau. Thus, the main goal of this study was to understand how the Environmental Educational cultural outlets are shown through narrative production and identity formation processes from the social, political and power relations. In order to accomplish this research we propose to go to schools and discuss the reading that is done for cultural products in Environmental Education, such as, interpretative and textual repertoires presented/displayed in schools; understand the possible strategies of meetings and events promoted by environmental educators in proceedings established for Environmental Education; interpret how environmental knowledge is received and represented in the construction of intermediate translation places in the self-echo-organization. Furthermore, we intended to identify how networks knowledge/doings and powers of the autopoietic training in Environmental Education are enhanced from these cultural products. Based on the narratives and theoretical paths concerning culture, cultural studies and training contexts, it was done individual and group interviews, chats and videocabines based on the immersion methodology aiming bioregionalism, narrative research, focusing on mapping and uses in symbolic cartography. Furthermore, the theoretical-methodological assumption of emotion / action followed this research with the active characters caparaoenses. Throughout trajectory, there were the presence of teachers and environmental educators from bioregion Caparaó Espírito Santo, where they made everything to weave networks knowledge/doings and affections. So these were the paths that ensure the thesis that cultural products produced in the bioregion Caparaó Capixaba weave networks and enhance environmental education.