Desigualdades sociais no âmbito urbano: a importância do papel da educação ambiental

Abstract

The main role of Environmental Education is to help people adopt a new look at their common place, their habitat. Environmental Education enables discussion and reflection, as well as learning about strategies and seeking to change this predatory look, especially with regard to the imbalance in urban regions due to social inequalities and lack of adequate structuring, aiming at an effective change. The objective of this work is to understand how Environmental Education can favor the reduction of social inequalities in the urban environment. These work has the hypothetical-deductive method of approach, with a bibliographic research technique. It is concluded that education for environmental teaching is fundamental as an axis of possibilities for the necessary changes for environmental care and preservation, also helping to develop practices that reduce social inequalities, after all, where there are problems in this sphere, there are also environmental impacts. in different spaces, such as the urban, object of this brief analysis.