Self-training in geosciences: permanent learning and temporality in society-nature immersion

Abstract

Three dimensions compose the construction of complex thinking: hetero-training, eco-training and self-training. The latter impacts an adult individual when he/she assumes driving his/her maturation, in a virtuous circle of action-reflection-action. Self-training requires autonomy and time; it evolves to permanent learning, by associating with transdisciplinarity, a pluralist perspective of knowledge that transcends the frontiers of knowledge and articulates different ways of understanding the world. Privileged fields for self-training are identified in the great interdisciplinary field of Environmental Sciences and, in particular, Geosciences. This article describes and analyzes the opportunity of a self-training proposal in Geosciences, based on controversial and conflicting situations of human interference with natural ecosystems, whose consequences can be evident, hidden or even unpredictable. One of the expected results of the process is to allow persons to exercise, throughout their lives, responsible and consequent citizenship.