Environmental Education and Life Cycle Pedagogy ; Educación Ambiental e a Pedagoxía do Ciclo de Vida ; Educação Ambiental e a Pedagogia do Ciclo de Vida

The article presents Pedagogy of the Life Cycle, as an educational proposition in the area of Environmental Education, which aims to work on studies on the life cycles of materials and consumer products and their social and environmental impacts. The proposal focuses on the acquisition and production of knowledge about processes, impacts and flows of natural, human and material resources related to the production, distribution and disposal of consumer goods, and seeks to relate them to economic, social and environmental factors. cultural. It is a proposition in tune with the intentions of a critical and emancipatory environmental education, dedicated to the production of knowledge, in a complex and contextual perspective, and the adoption of attitudes aimed at the conservation of natural resources, quality of life and social justice . This pedagogy seeks to develop the intelligence, creativity, ingenuity and ethical personality of students so that they are able to propose and implement alternatives for consumption and production that are more environmentally sustainable, socially more just and economically viable. Our final reflections consider that, although these objectives and contents are already addressed by environmental education, Life Cycle Pedagogy can inspire, guide and foster new educational practices and research activities. ; El artículo presenta la Pedagogía del Ciclo de Vida, como una propuesta educativa en el área de Educación Ambiental, que tiene como objetivo trabajar estudios sobre los ciclos de vida de los materiales y productos de consumo y sus impactos sociales y ambientales. La propuesta se enfoca en la adquisición y producción de conocimiento sobre procesos, impactos y flujos de recursos naturales, humanos y materiales relacionados con la producción, distribución y disposición de bienes de consumo, y busca relacionarlos con factores económicos, sociales y ambientales culturales. Se trata de una propuesta en sintonía con las intenciones de una educación ambiental crítica y emancipadora, ...