A importância da Educação Ambiental para a formação cidadã

Abstract

The present study, whose title is “The Importance of Environmental Education for Citizen Formation”, aims to investigate Environmental Education in a formal character in relation to the construction of active citizens, capable of thinking, reflecting and acting actively in the society in which they live in order to generate significant changes. These transformations are urgently needed, since the planet has suffered from great degradations and its impacts have been increasingly visible. For the realization of this work, a qualitative bibliographic review was used as a methodology. It was verified that EA, despite its transformative potential and great advances achieved, still faces difficulties in its application, not producing the expected effects, being worked in a predominantly focused way on individual actions, leaving aside a more global vision, being uncritical, punctual and isolated in natural science disciplines, and thus, should be valued more.