Universidade: formação e difusão do saber ambiental?

Abstract

Since the 1970s, from the conference in Stockholm in 1972 and the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education in Tbilisi in 1977, began building a global process aimed at changing the status of conscience of humanity, about the value of nature and redeploy production of knowledge. Since, as did the modernity of science and technology, the status of man as master of the universe, dominator of nature, natural resources subdued. The choice of title, University training and dissemination of environmental knowledge, took place in front of the importance and necessity of such an institution to assume its role in the process of leadership in proposing a form of interdisciplinary education that includes an ethical dimension, offering bases philosophical, scientific and environmentally correct for future professionals to contribute to a more sustainable development of our society. Based on the foregoing the present research is the result of an inquiry into the environment of a particular group of teachers from the Federal University of Santa Maria. To conduct the survey from the University Teachers, through interviews, it became clear that much time and work to have a greater engagement on environmental issues in order to enhance environmental education as an integral and indispensable in the process training of professionals in all fields of knowledge. As well as demystify the idea that it is only to specialists in environmental education the task of dealing with issues related to the environment, reinforcing the need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspect in education.