Developing a socio-environmental pedagogy: research and action associated with dams ; Desarrollar una pedagogía socioambiental: investigación y acción asociada a represas ; Desenvolvendo uma pedagogia socioambiental: pesquisa e ação associadas a barragens

This article is a result of the collective path of the Research and Action Group on Conflicts, Risks and Impacts Associated with Dams (CRIAB), in particular of its Thematic Group on Education and Society. For this paper, our main goal is to present the development process of a socio-environmental pedagogy that aims at communities affected by mining and water dams. Such pedagogy seeks to collaborate for a greater articulation between society and university towards the construction of ways to re-exist in these territories, from the understanding that education is a practice that can affect the material conditions of existence of social groups. We thus locate socio-environmental education as a critical pedagogical conception that targets the formation of subjects committed to socio-environmental justice and to the construction of another possible world. This work is based on Freirean pedagogy – here developed from the pedagogy of sustainability – and on historical materialism. The present proposal, composed of five articulated thematic axes (geological, geographical, sociological, environmental and political), will unfold in the structuring of a pedagogical plan that will take place collaboratively with those involved in the project and with local population. In view of the above, we present the principles of this non-formal extensionist education, as well as its method and forms of approach, focusing initially on theoretical-methodological explanations. ; Este artículo, resultado de la trayectoria colectiva del Grupo de Investigación y Acción sobre Conflictos, Riesgos e Impactos Asociados a Represas (CRIAB), en particular de su Grupo Temático Educación y Sociedad, trata sobre el desarrollo de una pedagogía socioambiental, dirigida en las comunidades afectadas por la minería y las represas de agua. Con esta pedagogía, se busca colaborar para una mayor articulación entre la sociedad y la universidad en la construcción de formas de reexistencia en estos territorios, partiendo del entendimiento de que la educación es ...