A natureza e a cultura na revista Nova Escola: problematizando representações nas pedagogias culturais

Abstract

Inserting in the studies and discussions about the Environmental Education, throughout the offered Specialization in Environmental Education course, it was possible to develop a monograph entitled “Nature and culture in the ‘Nova Escola’ magazine: problematizing representations in the cultural pedagogies”. This study aims to problematize the relationship between nature and culture produced in the teachers’ formation. More specifically, the purposes were to identify the representation of nature and of culture produced in a certain cultural pedagogy, comprehend the pedagogies published by this cultural instance, as well as, problematize the relationship between nature and culture, which are spread in the formation of teachers. To reach these goals, it was chosen the ‘Nova Escola – Edição especial – “Meio ambiente para preservar” (2003)’ magazine. These magazine installments “A terra está mesmo doente? (Is the earth really sick?)”, “As primeiras cidades, o primeiro lixo (The first cities, the first refuse)”, “As fábricas e a poluição ambiental (The factories and the environmental pollution)”, “Consumo e desperdício, os pecados das grandes cidades (Consumption and spoilage, the big cities sins)”, “O homen e a natureza no Brasil (Mankind and the nature in Brazil)”, “Amazônia e Pantanal, paraísos que podem ser salvos (Amazon rainforest and Pantanal, paradises that still can be saved)”, “Brasil: a maior potência ecológica do mundo (Brazil: the biggest ecologic power in the world)”, “Um mundo melhor é possível (A better world is possible)”, and the poster “Bichos e plantas do Brasil: riquesas naturais (Brazilian beasts and plants: natural resources)” made it possible to build four analyses units. During the analysis and discussion of these units, some tools proposed by Michel Foucault and by other authors related to the cultural studies and science cultural studies were used, as well as the risk concept by François Ewald. In the first analysis unit, it was broached about the nature as a holding versus the nature as paradise based on the discursive nets anthropocentric and biocentric, which keep the binary and unitary logics. In the second unit, there is the arising of printed and digital media as an apparatus that produces the truth in the schooling subjects. In the third, it was remarked publicization of myths about the Environment Education in schooling spaces. In the last of those four, the cultural pedagogy effects, related to the Environment Education, were discussed. These units maximized the checking of Environment Education as a formative experience and this monograph contribution to this scientific field.