Environmental education reviewed: The discursive production of the New School journal

Authors

  • Lucélia Bárbara Moraes Hortêncio Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
  • Iara Vieira Guimarães Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2016.201.7578

Abstract

The text aims to analyze a cultural artifact designed to promote information and training of basic education teachers. We want to understand the possibilities that the New School journal, published by Editora Abril, presents educators in their complex task of promoting environmental education. Particularly, we analyze the different types of texts and meanings produced by the journal on the issue of environmental education in the school context, attempting to answer the following questions: How are environmental issues presented in the New School journal? How does the journal tend to form the teacher to work in environmental education? The documentary research conducted on the publications of 2012 enabled us to understand that, for the journal, much more than a critical intellectual formation the teacher is in need of different teaching practices. The journal is prescriptive regarding methodological suggestions and models of teaching practices, with an emphasis on pragmatism rather than the training of a critical-reflective teacher.

Keywords: Environmental Education, teacher training, New School journal, the press.

Author Biographies

Lucélia Bárbara Moraes Hortêncio, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Professora da Rede Municipal de Uberlândia-MG. Grupo de Pesquisa: Formação Docente, Saberes e Práticas de Ensino de História e Geografia.  E-mail: barbarahortencio@yahoo.com.br

Iara Vieira Guimarães, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Professora da Faculdade de Educação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Grupo de Pesquisa: Formação Docente, Saberes e Práticas de Ensino de História e Geografia.  E-mail: iaraguimaraes@faced.ufu.br

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Published

2016-03-10

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2016): January/March

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