Contribuições da educação ambiental para uma gestão democrática da escola

Abstract

This article has with objective to contribute to the school management through their introduction of any environmental education principles on a administrative-pedagogic context and consider a reflection on the theories and praxis of the school management from an ecological viewpoint. The environmental education aims to develop a planetary citizenship that contemplates the interdependent biological, economical, political, cultural and sociological notion. Those are necessary to understand the complexity of the reality we live in. For this we propose a reflection about production ways, nature conception, citizenship principles, complexity and solidarity and their contributions to the school management. We conclude that the principles of environmental education may be considered a significant contribution to a democratic management of the school because of its independent, inter-relational, inquiring, solidary, social and ethic character.