A dimensão ética na educação ambiental: uma análise da legislação brasileira

Abstract

This research, linked to the line of research Educational Institution: Organization and Management, grew out of concern so that the environment has been treated by man, given the challenges posed by environmental problems that the limit would preclude human life on earth. Our objective was to investigate the limits and possibilities of environmental education in the face of environmental crisis currently experienced, justifying it, therefore, the need to identify the ethics adopted by major legal documents concerning the environment and environmental education. The methodology was qualitative research through two procedures: i) survey and literature review in books and scholarly articles to study the ethical issue in environmental education; ii) as well as desk research, we focus on the ethical conceptions present in legal documents such as the 1988 Federal Constitution, the law 9795 of 27 April 1999, which deals with environmental education, establishing the National Education Policy environmental and other provisions, the law 9394 of 20 December 1996 laying down the guidelines and bases of national education, the national Curricular Parameters of primary and secondary education, and the jurisprudence of the Brazilian courts. The results indicated that the prevailing ethics in society is anthropocentric, in which the human being puts your well-being first. The environment was objectified existing only to satisfy human needs. Nevertheless, in our legislation and the main documents of the environmental education regarding education found progress in dealing with the environment, we conclude that the ultimate goal of environmental protection discourse is to end human life.