• Abstract

    COMMUNITARY ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND BRAZILIAN COASTLINE CONSERVATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION LABORATORY - CENTER OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCE OF EARTH AND SEA – CTTMAR/UNIVALI

    Published date: 29/10/2010
    Beaches and other coastal ecosystems were always considered recreational places with high aesthetic value. In Brazil these ecosystems were the first places that had attracted the formers Environmental Educators’ attention. The huge relation between researchers and study subjects, approached marine environmental researchers as oceanographers and biologists for educational activities, aimed to environmental conservation. These activities since 1980’s had consolidated important projects along all Brazilian coastline, so that, most of them with great community involvement, attaining national expression. These examples state the great historical binding among Environmental Education (E.E.) and environmental workers, which stills exists until now. Despite the law advances, the Environmental Education is being introduced at the Brazilian college, with a historical delay. The insertion in to basic and highschool educational system generally makes part of widespread initiatives, without support of formal projects and also theoretical and methodological background. Within this scenario highlights the importance of social function of University as into the academic knowledge development, as than into technical support for insertion of E.E. into the highschool and basic levels. This responsibility withstands with the great lack of graduating courses in E.E. in Brazil and a needing of carrying out E.E. into the academic place such as knowledge field, researching subject and teaching. In this point of view, the Environmental Education Laboratory – Laboratório de Educação Ambiental / LEA – of UNIVALI, located at the Center of Technological Science of Earth and Sea (CTTMar), is helping out the insertion of E.E. into the University curriculum. At the present it’s working out within courses at the environmental sciences area, producing and spreading out experiments and pedagogic practices in E.E. at the coastal zone and performing of partnerships with community based social movements, and social groups, such as Environmental NGO’s, and also city halls in to the center-north area of Santa Catarina state coastal zone.

Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology

Environmental Sciences, Aquatic and Coastal Environments.

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