Open model for environmental education

Abstract

The planning and implementation of legal units of environmental management have been conflicting, generating social and economic predicaments. These conflicts generate cognitive, emotional and affective movements, that somehow contribute to learning with the operation. The Environmental Education, as a mediating process, enables the collective construction of the sustainable development process for the productive sectors, with an open methodological proposal, whose model is to generate solutions from social participation. In this sense, it is understood that Environmental Education is a process of educational praxis that aims at building values, attitudes, concepts, skills, standards, knowledge and shared practices for the constructing a style of thinking that contributes to environmental citizenship. Trying to understand and contribute with this social dynamics, have been conducted, from 2001 to 2006, numerous and multiple environmental teaching actions in the highlands region of Santa Catarina. This movement resulted in the development of an open model of environmental education which is mediated by the environmental perception of social actors involved, understanding perception as the integration of biological, psychological and social dimensions. Thus, the proposition for the Open Model of Environmental Education with the paradigm of transdisciplinary opening mediated by the environmental perception of social actors involved will result in the collective construction of solutions to local environmental problems.